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...performance. The Stones, ever the embodiment of good ol' pure, simple rock and roll, were the perpetrators of one of the most extravagant spectacles imaginable. They surfed through the concert on the crest of this dynamic--the simple versus the extravagant, the simple made extravagant, an interplay which in retrospect was the ideal way to showcase one of music's most long-beloved and constant phenomena...
...this amazing play upon our need for emotion is really to the movie's credit. In retrospect, though Seven Years in Tibet seems at first to proceed slowly and aimlessly, it is this gradual start that makes the closing catharsis so compelling and skillful--a quick change fulfilling, not hollow...
...retrospect, Thernstrom says she feels like "one of the long list of people Sinedu had reached out to only to be turned away...
Aviation maps list Duar, a sprawling agglomeration of African huts, as Dwil Keil--the "lone house." In retrospect, the description sounds ominously prophetic. Located in south Sudan's western Upper Nile region, Duar found itself at the epicenter of a deadly epidemic--one of the least publicized to hit Africa in recent decades--that raged through the late 1980s and the 1990s. Of Duar's more than 1,000 original inhabitants, only four were left alive. The epidemic also took the lives of more than 100,000 people in the surrounding region...
Some who have come to be famous see in retrospect that the daydream may have been touchingly adolescent, self-inflating in the style of Mr. Toad. In some personalities, the need for attention is darker and more retrograde: neurotic, infantile, a sort of baby's unappeasable love craving, a raw, screaming hunger...