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...empathize. If not for Hood’s unique investigation into the nuances of life, Tsotsi’s complex psyche and troubled human interactions could have overwhelmed the film’s slow dramatization. Tsotsi’s often awkward interactions with the kidnapped baby parallel his painstaking personal development, as he reflects on aspects of his own difficult childhood. Chweneyagae’s features show no sense of tenderness during the rather violent opening sequence, but with his gradual growth of affection for the baby, his young face animatedly begins to embrace the necessity...
...widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy. Not the president of America’s most prestigious universities. I don’t see evidence of that kind of frenzy and fanaticism here. It seems to be an entirely ungrounded parallel...
...challenging one’s spirituality in the name of Christianity. By all counts, CSA and HRCF are of the same mind, but for some reason, these two bastions of Christianity at Harvard don’t walk their journeys of faith together. Call them parallel lines; it’s not that they never meet, it’s that they both have things to do. That won’t last, if the current leadership has anything to do with it.LIKE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR?“The lynchpin” of HRCF, Bryant says...
...researchers could also tell that Kennewick Man had been buried parallel to the Columbia, with his left side toward the water: the bones were abraded on that side by water that eroded the bank and eventually dumped him out. It probably happened no more than six months before he was discovered, says team member Thomas Stafford, a research geochemist based in Lafayette, Colo. "It wouldn't have been as much as a year," he says. "The bones would have been more widely dispersed...
...every segment. Gondry, the crazy auteur of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” filmed this just months before Chappelle bugged out and headed for South Africa, leaving behind his mega-successful “Chappelle’s Show.” Running parallel to Chapelle’s concert footage are scenes of him wandering around Dayton giving out tickets, jamming, and relaxing with his musical friends backstage. Interspersed with the film’s good vibes are brilliantly incisive commentary of modern America’s flaws and hypocrisies by Dave Chappelle...