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Most of these traditional festivities were religious, as Christmas still faintly is. But the line between religion and recreation can be a fuzzy one, since in so many religions--from ancient Dionysian worship to modern-day Brazilian Candomble and storefront Pentecostalism--the best way to contact the deity or deities is to get up and dance and sing and shout. The climax of the ritual celebration was not a drunken stupor but ecstatic union with the gods...
...series of talks which dissolved after squabbles—the White House under John F. Kennedy ’40 chose not to build on these successes, Hernández said. And Kennedy simultaneously employed confrontational strategies with this low-key engagement, he added, poisoning the diplomatic climate. Modern-day restrictions—a possible consequence of this uncooperative climate—nearly kept Hernández from making it to Harvard in the first place. The status of his visa was mired in legal limbo up until shopping period, so much so that Hernández stepped...
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...women dominate. Volver took Almodvar six years to write. When he started, he envisioned Cruz in the smaller part of the daughter. As time passed, "I suddenly felt that I wanted something bigger," he says. "I thought, Why not make her the mother?" So Almodvar gave his modern-day Loren a disheveled up-do, some thick black eyeliner, that butt and a feminine character who gets to range from fragile to furious. Cruz balances screwball humor and a little vulgarity (there are fart jokes) with a screen-goddess glamour that can't be faked. "Pedro says I have...
...says, “which I would not and have not repeated to anyone one. Some of [them] denied any of those feelings whatsoever.”According to Bale, one of the strengths of the film is how it shows the unique contradictions of modern-day soldiers. “America’s at war, but does it really feel like that? None of us are actually threatened by the war in Iraq or Afghanistan immediately,” he said. “It’s a strange kind of distant...