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This tension comes to the fore when a rabidly xenophobic cowboy asks Borat directly in the movie if he is a Muslim or not. Caught off-guard by the question, Cohen states in character that he is not a Muslim but a Kazakh (a curious answer owing to Kazazhstan’s large Muslim population). Cohen’s Borat then tries to lighten up the moment by saying that instead of following Islam he “follows the hawk” (a flippant reference to Kazakhstan’s flag...
...those scenes were improvised.But at a recent roundtable interview held in anticipation of their latest creation, “For Your Consideration,” Guest and Levy revealed that their brand of spontaneity requires a surprising amount of structure.“You’re always caught off-guard. That’s the whole point,” Guest explains. “But it’s not a free for all. It’s very rigid in its preparation.”The pair have co-written “Guffman...
...That last mile is the hardest one, and even rich countries can be caught off-guard?witness Hurricane Katrina. Indonesia, with its 54,716 km of often densely populated and earthquake-prone coastline, is particularly exposed to the threat of local tsunamis. "There need to be sirens or SMS messages on cell phones or even Internet warnings," says Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University. "The public has to be aware of what to do, and that's education." In Indonesia, such educational programs are only in place on Sumatra, which bore...
...future “good news” and plans. When one hears that Senior Suzy is working for that investment bank next year, Ambitious Abe is going to be a Cambridge scholar, and that Loving Lucy and Enamored Eric are engaged, the last piece of news catches most off-guard: it is the least expected, after all. Getting engaged while in college is not necessarily wrong, but it is just atypical, and thus those who make this decision become a source of scruitiny, and, often, gossip. Though it may seem like many are making their vows, the reality...
Although the tension between Summers and the University’s faculty has made national news for much of his tenure, many visitors—and even the occasional Cantabrigian—were caught off-guard by news of the president’s resignation yesterday afternoon...