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...visual and sensual aspects of the movie are counteracted by the content of the movie. The movie is a rich and accurate depiction of the City of Joy's poor half. However, the urbanized and richer aspects of the city, slip into oblivion. The impression one gets from the movie is that the City of Joy is not only entirely impoverished and disease-ridden, but a City of Contention. For someone who has never seen a movie about India before, this could confirm all the negative stereotypes that people foster. However, this problem reflects the content, not the execution...
Garcia's imagination is ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
VERIFICATION WASN'T even mentioned before the U.S.-led coalition bombed Iraq back to oblivion. operating according to this precedent, the administration should be willing to accept the Haitian refugees' allegation without need for corroborating evidence...
...campaign calculates that to set the mood for Super Tuesday, the Arkansas Governor has to first sweep Georgia (March 3) and South Carolina (March 7). A bit trickier is Clinton's need to prove that he can win outside the South, perhaps by trying to spend his rivals into oblivion in Colorado (March 3) or, less likely, by going head-to-head with Tsongas in Maryland the same day. Clinton's hopes, especially in the South, rest on mobilizing middle-class anger behind his plan for economic recovery...
...serve sentences for penalties that seem to last for years. Of course, this is true in every sport, or every life that knows a slip, a birth, a marriage, but in the Olympics an athlete comes into the spotlight for a second and then, in most cases, disappears into oblivion for four years. The first question asked of the first male gold medalist, Austrian downhiller Patrick Ortlieb, was whether he had thought, during his run, of his teammate Gernot Reinstadler, who died in a race last year. He couldn't, the affable big man said simply, he couldn't afford...