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...opting for the suburban and rural life. And why not? While some might see forsaking the opportunity to gallivant around the Big Apple during young adulthood as being unadventurous or provincial, I interpret it as the opposite. Choosing to move to the rural South is not a retreat, but a venture into a world that is far less familiar to me than the streets of New York. I could easily see myself settling in the city, working in Manhattan, and coming to view a road trip as a drive to Queens. This terrifies...
Faced with dwindling options for keeping safe, Western aid workers often retreat to the capital cities of conflict-ridden countries or to their headquarters abroad, leaving behind local staff to run essential services like distributing food or running health posts. "Organizations perceive that their local staff are going to be more secure because they live in the region," says Harmer. Yet they are just as likely to be attacked, according to the ODI report. Somalis working for U.N. aid agencies faced the highest rate of attacks of any aid workers in the world last year - about 46.7 attacks for every...
...both from its lack of ambition and its dreary songwriting. Their last effort, “Broken String,” while not a radical effort, was expansive and risky by comparison, and coming two years later, “Grrr…” feels like a retreat. Without focus and ambition, Bishop Allen risk losing all claims to aesthetic necessity...
...also removed from them." During the apartheid years, he didn't make propaganda films about the bitter fruits of the regime. Instead, he contrived melancholy parables about the psychological predicaments of life within a brutal and brutalizing system. You sense he's a man who would be happy to retreat into his own world if only the larger world weren't always drumming just outside his door. What James Joyce has Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses--"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"--could be Kentridge's working motto...
...target of affection.The film remains an immersive experience. Its heavy, disheartening examination of society’s periodic wish for self-destruction builds through long, brooding scenes and stunningly detailed panoramas—from Blake’s lonely, rainy funeral to Veidt’s ancient Egyptian-style retreat in Antarctica. This attention to detail, however, inevitably makes the movie feel slow at times. The viewer must embrace it and soak in the film’s visual extravagance, or reject it and battle moments of boredom, which at 163 minutes the movie cannot avoid.The film?...