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...lastly, I will miss the sports themselves. All my life, I have always been inexplicably drawn to athletics and the pleasurable purity of competition on the field or court or ice. I won’t wax poetic about the beauty of sport, but I will say that its allure is what got me writing for Crimson Sports in the first place. It was, if nothing else, a fan’s way of getting more involved and probing a world with which few are truly intimate. No matter what I end up doing in life...
...With Faas' input, Pyle has written a breezy, anecdotal and occasionally poetic book. But it is too much of a tribute to really penetrate the psyches of men as complex and-in all probability-slightly disturbed as, say, Potter, who kept a duffel bag of guns and hand grenades in his Saigon apartment. Another unpopular war broke out as I finished reading Lost over Laos, and I suspect that's what gave it much of its resonance. So did the sudden, sobering thought that-with the never-ending war on terror taking journalist friends to ever more hostile places...
...combination of totally immersing myself into my imagination and artistic state, and yet writing with the full awareness that any pair of eyes could be reading the same thing,” says Liu. “Whenever I want to keep something secret, I just wax incoherent, undecipherable poetic that only I can understand, and that leaves everyone else in the dark, scratching an unlocated itch.” To see what she means, head to www.cmliu.com...
...slaughter of three hundred and fifty people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.) Hundreds of Iraqi civilians died in the invasion of Iraq, not to mention the thousands who disappeared under Saddam Hussein’s despotic rule. Crime of the century? There is nothing poetic about this hyperbole; it is an outright insult to humanity...
...about the genocide. To tell the story, Saroyan restages the siege of Van, near the Iranian border, where Armenians with old rifles held off Turks with modern artillery for weeks before being crushed. Though Ararat is actually 200 km from Van, the mountain periodically "drifts" onto the fictional set. Poetic license, as Saroyan claims, or distortion? "There are many stories in the film that are being borne by tellers who are unreliable," says Egoyan, "but that doesn't diminish the need to tell it." The film's complex structure is not exactly audience-friendly, but Egoyan is unapologetic. "If something...