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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent work, is similarly disturbing. It revolves around Valentin, a student who gets a job playing the victim in police crime-scene reconstructions. Even though they are simulated, his repeated participation in one gruesome end after another highlights the violence and brutality endemic in contemporary life. Meanwhile, in a parallel plot that parodies Shakespeare, the ghost of Valentin's father tells him that he was poisoned by his brother who later married Valentin's mother. While the finale is inevitable - Valentin takes his mother, his uncle and his girlfriend (who has become a bit too insistent about getting married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two for the Road | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...still respectfully listened to, they are seldom acted upon. The hope is that this beautiful book will not simply be a record of his work and that of his peers, but an inspiration to future generations of Cambodians to preserve and evolve an architectural style that has no parallel. -By Kevin Doyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Asian Books of 2006 | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

DeNiro was perhaps drawn to this story for its parallel to our current political...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: The Good Shepherd | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...Ella details the genealogical research by which she hopes to uncover the hidden meaning of her dream, her narrative comes to mimetically parallel that of Isabelle...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: The Virgin Blue | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

Here again, the Vietnam parallel may be relevant. Defeat in Vietnam did not prevent the U.S. from maintaining close cooperative relationships with other regional countries, including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. Nor did it stop the U.S. from forging sometimes productive ties with Vietnam's backers (including China and what was then the Soviet Union) or, with the passage of time, with Vietnam itself. Today Asia is the most dynamic part of the world, and the U.S. is a central participant in that dynamism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding Iraq Syndrome | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

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