Word: provinciale
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5 THE BUTCHER BOY In a provincial 1960s Irish town, an emotionally starved child feeds his imagination on crud culture and warped religiosity, then innocently creates a miniholocaust. Arson, murder, madness--Neil Jordan transforms it all into a bruising metaphor for the larger violence of our times.
Confident that they will learn still more about creatures that ruled the earth unchallenged for more than 200 million years, Chiappe and his colleagues plan to return to their dinosaurian mother lode next March. Says Coria: "This discovery opens large doors that had remained closed for years." To make sure...
The real credit in The Alarmist must go to the actors. Like Mt. Rushmore, their place in the surroundings is hard to surmise, but they define it anyway. They convince the audience of what is happening, and sell the surreal with their gregarity. David Arquette is set with a particularly...
Zhu has no natural constituency to support him--neither in the military nor in the provincial party system nor in the central bureaucracy. Explains David Shambaugh, a China expert at George Washington University and the Brookings Institution: "Zhu has stepped on a lot of toes to get to the top...
The quote comes from a tablet currently on display at Harvard's Semitic Museum. It is part of an exhibit on the excavations of the town of Nuzi, a small provincial city in northern Mesopotamia that was once part of the Mittani kingdom, a Near Eastern world power from around...