Word: nelsoned
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...Sword of Islam), or just Seif to his friends, elaborates: "The kind of terrorism that Libya was accused of is different from today's terrorism." How's that? Seif, 29, an architect with a business degree who heads a charitable foundation, maintains that his father supported freedom fighters, like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat, now given "red-carpet" treatment...
...David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities yet to be named. In addition to judging the submissions, these guest panelists will hold question and answer sessions with the participants, an invaluable opportunity for anyone interested in pursuing a life...
ARRESTED. WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA, 65, controversial ex-wife of Nelson Mandela; on 85 counts of fraud involving more than $100,000; in Pretoria. The charges involve an alleged scheme to obtain loans for nonexistent employees of the African National Congress Woman's League, of which she is president...
...there is a main element to the plot, it is that Aunt Julia is nearing death. The skillful adaptation of Joyce’s text by writer-director Richard Nelson indicates that reality, but does not go for mere empathy, instead communicating a hope that transcends death. At the same time that Julia’s health is failing, Gabriel is doubting the love borne for him by his wife, played by a lovely but somewhat grating Kate Kearney-Patch, who possesses a radiant voice but whose speaking voice requires more reining-in than was given by the director...
...Nelson holds the production together with strong direction that is delightfully self-aware. Many of the songs are delivered by characters fully aware that they are singing, rather than communicating with words that the audience somehow hears put to music. Just before the format of musical storytelling (apparently a tradition at the Morkan residence) becomes tedious, the format is halted, and more book-based story-telling resumes...