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Then, just before intermission, a catalytic gale blows in a tousled malcontent called Lovborg (John C. Dewis). He’s brilliant, he’s wry and he’s long been nursing a passion for Hedda. And when he and Hedda butt heads, they touch off a string of events with uniformly tragic consequences...
There's enough blood here to appease the Passion of the Christ crowd, plus a nifty catfight in a trailer, a virtuoso buried-alive scene and some Old Testament retribution (an eye for an eye). But Vol. 2 reduces the casualties and gentles down the mood. You get less kill, more Bill. The first was show, this is tell--anecdotes at 10 paces. Of course, this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual...
Diogo has consistently used her contagious passion for Mozambique to drive real economic change and has become an outspoken advocate of transparency, accountability and good governance in a region that has long been victimized by corruption. Her achievements are increasingly attracting global attention. She has been singled out by the World Bank for her efforts in poverty reduction and recently served on the United Nations Commission on the Private Sector and Development, helping to map out a vision of how even the poorest countries can unleash entrepreneurship and mobilize the private sector to meet their development challenges. --By MARK MALLOCH...
...passion and innovation Blackalicious bring to their music seems hard to reconcile with their popular acceptance, perhaps it is only because a conflict between the two has been artificially imposed. Although fans love to play up the fundamental differences between “mainstream” and “underground” artists, according to Gab, the scene has gotten to the point where “anyone selling less than 10,000 records calls themselves underground,” regardless of their values and the messages they convey. This stereotype has been changing recently, as artists...
Rakoczy said her speech would focus on the rewards of pursuing one’s passion...