Word: relentlessly
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...Itami, a filmmaker to whom obsession is character, the source of everything that is interesting and wacko in human behavior. In last year's Tampopo he genially satirized the spiritual contortions people will undergo when gripped by a fervor for haute cuisine. In A Taxing Woman his subjects are relentless greed and implacable righteousness, and his mood is, appropriately, much darker...
...would ease the stifling 90 degrees heat never comes. To frustrated Panamanians, the weather this year provides a striking parallel to the political crisis that grips their country. Just as they long for rain, citizens yearn for the departure of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. But while Noriega faces a relentless combination of economic woes and widespread unrest, he still clings to power. Like the seemingly imminent rain, he stubbornly refuses to fall...
...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...
With its caricatured characters, the relentless chronicling of Artie an Angela's relationship--from inception to ride-off-in-the-sunset ending--Arts and Sciences is at best uninspired and only mildly amusing. And though it may quote Greek and allude to Keats, Mallon's novel remains a mainstream work. Let it float...
...spectacular granite peaks that frame Rio de Janeiro make it one of the world's most striking cities. Relentless rains turned beauty into chaos last week, however, as floods and mudslides struck hill-hugging shantytowns and roared into busy neighborhoods below. One slide drove more than 500 tons of mud and rock onto a clinic for the aged, killing 25 patients and staff members. Rush-hour traffic braked to a halt as floodwaters covered downtown thoroughfares, causing ten-mile...