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Suddenly, a quasi-melodic hum from a group of grinning men and women in the front broke through the din. My peers smiled with them and some even tapped their feet. Students on my row became so enthused that they refused to get up, thereby blocking my escape...
...make few new converts. Unless one knows the book or TV show, the plot is hard to get involved in, especially in the breakneck opening minutes. The love scenes, although competently acted, are so flatly written that they lack emotional intensity, a defect that the lush, quasi-operatic score only partly makes up for. In the script's soap-opera view of life, sexual passion and jealousy drive even political revolutions. And there are echoes of the worst musical of the 1980s, the Shroud of Turin howler Into the Light, in the finale: red-and-gold-robed chorines...
Graffiti is a bridge to nowhere, unless you consider another safari through Prince's quasi-mystical subconscious a trip worth taking. Shot entirely in Minneapolis, mostly on the sound stage of Prince's $10 million music- and film-production facility, Paisley Park, the film looks like a skein of rock videos strung around a badly frayed plot line. It has something to do with Prince's falling in love with an angel. Also something to do with Prince's playing his music his way and with his vanquishing the forces of musical vandalism...
Weiler divided the history of the community into three periods. He said the "foundational period," from the organization's inception to the early 1970s, was marked by the creation of a "quasi-federal constitutional structure" in the community. This structure, he said, was largely the result of many rulings by the community's supreme court, which enshrined in law doctrines such as the supremacy of community law and certain human rights standards...
...What we should not do is sponsor academic tourism and quasi-concentrations. We should not confuse our responsibility to study the world with a responsibility to manage...