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...what is Dreamtime's Statement? Beats me, The Songs are obviously about something: "Nice in Nice," "Too Precious," and the creatively titled "You'll Always Reap What you Show" are all clearly about materialism, for example. They don't actually comment on materialism; they are merely about materialism...
...station owns one of the precious keys which open every door in the tunnels...
...spectators are directed into the theater past the lip of the stage, where they witness the scene of the crime: two effigies of corpses lie sprawled in rags. Above them is a bloodstained mirror in which each onlooker may see his own face. The notion at first seems precious. But at the end, during a redemptive candle-lighting ceremony, Lyubimov brings those battered bodies back to life in the person of actors, only to have their candles, and existences, snuffed out again by another character who echoes the murderer Raskolnikov's belief in arithmetic...
...acting upon their true faith. China should congratulate itself upon having such courageous young men and women among its best and brightest. And it is extremely gratifying for me to realize that, despite so many years of repression, Chinese youth still retains ideals and visions--the best and most precious things of being young...
Whatever else happens in her rule, Aquino has already given her country a bright, and inviolate, memory. More important, she has also resuscitated its sense of identity and pride. In the Philippines those luxuries are especially precious. Almost alone among the countries of Asia, it has never been steadied by an ancient culture; its sense of itself, and its potential, was further worn away by nearly four centuries of Spanish and American colonialism. The absence of a spirit of national unity has also made democracy elusive. Even Jose Rizal, a political reformer shot by the Spanish and a national hero...