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...What saves the movie is the sheer earnestness of everyone involved. Najwa Nimri and Fele Martinez are captivating as Medem's quasi-incestuous lovers. There's both a passion and an intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious...
What saves the movie is the sheer earnestness of everyone involved. Najwa Nimri and Fele Martinez are captivating as Medem's quasi-incestuous lovers. There's both a passion and an intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious...
...through microwave transmissions. Pentagon analyst Franklin Spinney says Serbia's plan echoes its World War II tactics. The Germans sent 700,000 troops into Serbia but were unable to root Serbian partisans out despite four years of fierce fighting. "The Serbs are using their air-defense system as a quasi guerrilla force to capture the attention and distract the focus of NATO air power," Spinney says. "They are not trying to attrit NATO's air force as much as to neutralize its effects...
...about what my experience at Harvard would be like, and (2) I had no alternative but to make my decision based upon this weekend. Up until this point I had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place I was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of 'home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that I would have to find some alternate criterion...
...about what my experience at Harvard would be like, and (2) l had no alternative but to make my decision based upon this weekend. Up until this point l had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place l was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of `home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that l would have to find some alternate criterion...