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...corruption and incompetence, embarked on an ill-fated attempt at reform in 1989. After the government reluctantly agreed to the first free elections in 29 years of independence, army generals pulled the plug when the F.I.S. won a plurality in the first round of voting. The generals installed a puppet civilian government rather than allow a second-round electoral victory for the fundamentalists, whose draconian vision of an Islamic republic had capitalized on the anger and discontent of millions of the young, poor and unemployed...
...duplicitous nature of the denials by Pidot and his official spokesmodel cum puppet Hopke became wonderfully clear soon after the denials, when the Crimson discovered Salient e-mail that directly contradicted all assertions of stability. Unless you happen to be the nation of Mexico, the "serious financial emergency" written about in one message cannot be equated with "a normal financial situation" in another message...
Barbra attempted to set her example, but she ended up looking like a flaccid puppet sustained by her brilliantly turgid teleprompter. Michelle Pfeiffer babbled for a while and told us that she tries to choose roles responsibly as an artist: sleeping with a hairy animal and meowing as a cartoon dominatrix seemed, to her mind, to fit the bill...
Many crucial scenes in "To Live" center around the puppet shows. Instead of including too much, Yimou leaves the audience asking for more. Lu Ye, the cinematographer allows the scenes to develop their own rich intensity. Nothing is forced. We are left with some breathtakingly gentle images...
When the general left to return home and pack, much of the crowd crossed the street to the National Palace to call for the resignation of Emile Jonassaint, the puppet president installed by the military earlier this year. The next morning, after 500 U.S. soldiers took over the National Palace and other government buildings, they began escorting Jonassaint's ministers to the door and clearing a path for Aristide's men to move in. By Wednesday, the octogenarian president had announced his resignation. That set the stage for removing the final obstacle to the exiled President's return: actually getting...