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...nub of debates over Muslim integration in the West lies the question, What's decent to do in public--display your sexuality or your faith? The French have no problem with bare breasts on billboards and TV but big problems with hijab-covered heads in public schools and government offices. Many Muslims feel just the opposite. As my friend suggested, Westerners believe that prayer is something best done in private, a matter for individual souls rather than state institutions. In the Islamic world, religion is out of the closet: on the streets, chanted five times daily from minarets, enshrined...
...that's not the nub of it either. Hillary is just a sideshow; the main event is unfolding deep inside Gore. Consider: He put himself in position to win the Nobel by committing to an issue bigger than himself - the fight to save the planet. If he runs for President now, he'll be hauling himself back up onto that dusty old pedestal, signaling that he is, after all, the most important thing in his world. Sure, he'd say he was doing it because he feels a moral obligation to intervene in a time of unparalleled crisis. But running...
...nub of debates over Muslim integration in Europe lies the question: what's decent to do in public? Display your sexuality, or your faith? The French have no problem with bare breasts on billboards and TV, but big problems with hijab-covered heads in public schools and government offices. Many Muslims feel just the opposite. For most Europeans, prayer is something best done in private, a matter for individual souls rather than state institutions. In the Islamic world, religion is out of the closet: on the streets, chanted five times daily from minarets, enshrined in constitutions, party platforms and penal...
...element of anger that clashes with Dreyman’s naïvely optimistic attitude. Martina Gedeck, who plays Dreyman’s girlfriend, delivers the most clear external example of the destruction wrought by internal conflict—the audience watches as she is worn down to a nub by the struggle between right and wrong. The director also makes the score a key element, elevating it from mere wallpaper to a vehicle of communication between the audience and the film. The music remains soft, allowing the volume to stem from the characters, each screaming in their moral conflicts...
...dreadful,” Lockwood says of the film, which depicts a fabricated relationship between an irascible Beethoven—played by Ed Harris—and a fictional female copyist. Yet Lockwood doesn’t condemn the movie entirely. “There’s a nub of psychological truth in the idea that an old and isolated artist could have been thrilled to have a young woman be his copyist,” he says. “But it’s largely a failure.” On the topic of Beethoven, Lockwood knows...