Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visceral and heart-wrenching scene, we witness the escape of a rebel leader, gagged with chicken wire and a wooden block, rush towards his screaming wife and child. He is dragged back, as the Americans watch, paralyzed with indecision, strung between leaving with their precious cargo and forgetting what they have seen, or helping these people escape. As the tortured Iraqi rebel is dragged back, one of Saddam's soldier's kills his wife...
...highlights of the film. He portrays Vig with a sort of unstudied exuberance, post-adolescent can-do hyperactivity, and is earnestly naive without a trace of self-parody. He delivers lines that may be almost trite in their ignorance--for example, when he asks an Iraqi rebel leader, "So, you guys think all Americans are Satan, right?" without betraying anything more improprietary than curiousity. His acting carries some of the less compelling scenes out of their self-conscious didacticism, for example, the inevitable "learning about each other's customs" moments that are inevitable in a movie that portrays the meeting...
...brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding the rebels...
...because unlike Greece and Turkey, which have recently managed to overcome some the traditional hostility between them by helping each other through traumatic earthquakes, the heart of the Beijing-Taipei dispute is whether Taiwan is for all intents and purposes a separate state (as Taipei maintains) or simply a rebel province (as Beijing insists). The Taiwanese, for example, aren't all convinced that they're actually linked "as flesh and blood" to the mainland Chinese, with many nationalist elements maintaining that their differences are ethnic as much as political. So if emergency aid sent across the Taiwan Strait is given...
Whereas Popular--in which a gorgeous, blond teen goddess and a gorgeous (but brunet) rebel become stepsisters-to-be--appears to have Western Union on speed dial. The original pilot (which is being expanded to two hours) takes on body image, eating disorders and virginity, just for starters. Co-creators Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews talk excitedly about future theme issues: cheating, fame, the social pecking order (Bibb's cheerleader is named Brooke McQueen--get it?). They aim to make, as Murphy calls it, "a Zeitgeist show" that nails the teen experience du jour with rapid-response precision; they repeat...