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...Ugetsu Monogatari" at 7:30 p.m. The legend ofa potter, Genjuro and a farmer Tobei, who, drawnby the lure of wartime profits, risk not their ownlives but the lives and happiness of theirfamilies...
...small three-room office overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene in western Idaho, the man with a phone to his ear looks like another recreational fisherman in polo shirt and khakis lining up a partner for an afternoon of angling. But Robert Potter is actually an expert at a different kind of fishing -- trolling for out-of-state companies. His trophies are impressive. As president of Jobs Plus, a nonprofit economic-development firm in Coeur d'Alene, he has single-handedly lured 35 companies to the lake area since 1987 -- 30 of them from Southern California. His technique is so simple...
...Says Steve Gribbon of the Alert Centre Protective Services, a Colorado-based security company with 200,000 customers in 48 states: "Five or six years ago, only estates in the $700,000- to-$1 million range used them. We're now seeing them in $200,000 homes." Says Anthony Potter, a private security consultant in Atlanta: "In the past, people thought home-security systems were too expensive -- that it was only for people with diamond collections." But, he adds, "they are seeing that it is not that expensive. It cuts their homeowner's insurance." Many are also thinking...
With all of the imagery and visual techniques in the movie, it is easy to be distracted and miss the peculiar role. Sally Potter gives sex in the movie. Only rarely can one ever be sure whether the character on screen is male or female. The lyrics to the mystical soundtrack are always soprano and a male singer is always, displayed. The ancient queen Orlando befriends, Elizabeth I, is played by a male actor. This makes a bedroom scene so hilarious that it is almost disturbing...
...masculine woman they are simply those of a person trying to be who she is, a being who in many ways transcends gender roles and sex itself. In this sense the modern day ending is an appropriate one, despite the obvious difference from what Woolf knew as modern. Potter implies that our era is the most free of all those lived in by Orlando but leaves us with no proof but that gained from the exquisite imagery and inherent Zaniness of the movie...