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...they hate the festival," he told TIME's Jeffrey Ressner, "I wonder why they bother to stay in show business." Cecil B. was typical of the American films premiering at Cannes this year. Ribald or sedate, they were all off-Hollywood. The Coen brothers offered a surprisingly genial odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, with a turn by George Clooney that taps all his reserves of seductive con-artistry. Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men) brought Nurse Betty, a dark comedy with Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman and high romantic spirits to match its high body count. James Ivory...
Thank you for describing the harsh odyssey of the illegal Chinese immigrant Chen Canting [WORLD, May 1]. Every spoiled rich kid in the U.S. should be forced to read this. Suffering for today's youngsters is not being able to get a sports car. My family and I came to America more than 10 years ago from Korea. My mother works two jobs, as do my brother and I. My father looks after our small business, and all our money goes to pay for school. I wish Chen luck as he tries to stay in the U.S. What we thought...
...take these photographs? Why would anyone purchase a book of them? There is, first of all, the journalistic aspect of Nachtwey's work. He has seen what few others have seen and has brought back evidence of his journeys. His work is, as he writes in his afterword, an odyssey "through the dark reaches of the last decade,'' which is to say through some of the worst human experiences life has had to offer during the last few years. Few have demonstrated the awfulness of these situations better, and we should appreciate Nachtwey for documenting what we are too faint...
...Starr's odyssey from a federal appellate judge known mainly to Washington insiders to a symbol of the Clinton's impeachment crisis began in 1994, when a three-judge panel asked him to become the independent counsel charged with investigating the Whitewater land deals and other matters...
...recommend Martin Duberman's Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey to O'Donnell so that he may understand that homosexuality is not a choice (any more than heterosexuality) and that people like Duberman tried a number of unsuccessful "cures" due to the shame he felt about...