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...versatile soundtrack. The movie implies a setting in the 80s with a single shot of Reagan on a television screen, but period choice seems merely an arbitrary excuse to pepper the film with great songs from the era, including David Bowie’s “Modern Love,” The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven,” and The Outfield’s “Your Love.” The wistful pop of these years accompanies Mottola’s use of frequent pans and circling close...
...idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people tend to pick only those who agree with them...
...graduate of Tokyo University, like so many Japanese leaders, Yosano has some qualities that make him stand apart. As the grandson of well-known modern Romantic poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling in Cairo, where he remembers being asked: what is it like to be a citizen of a defeated country? The sting of that question became the seed of his political career. After graduating with a law degree, Yosano worked five years for the Japan Atomic Power Co. before taking...
...only did it have to fix the monumental inequalities that the apartheid government had created, it had to do so using the instruments of state power - government, law, the police - which it had spent years fighting. One way in which this identity crisis is expressed is in the modern ANC look - the mix of bling and camo worn by the Prada proletariat on display in East London. At a more serious level, while business, civil society and the press provide far more of a check on South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics...
...been too successful, so the pirates have decided it's easier to go after targets in the Indian Ocean because the navies are not there and it's a much, much more difficult area to patrol because there's an awful lot more sea." (See pictures of Somalia's modern piracy...