Word: ruralism
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...people of Uwajima know the sea. Located at the western tip of rural Shikoku Island, they go out to fish in nearby waters and culture pearls in the bay. From their history they understand that the ocean can be capricious and cruel...
...that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades in re-education camps. When China reopened to the West in the late 1970s, missionaries were among the first to enter, often as the only people willing to brave rural hardships as English teachers. In 1986 the government approved a foundation, Amity, to print Bibles and place Western religious workers in schools, hospitals and nursing homes...
...DIED. RODOLFO MORALES, 75, mild-mannered Mexican painter whose colorful, surreal renderings of everyday rural Mexico won international acclaim; in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wary of fame, Morales returned to the dusty Indian village where he grew up and spent the last 16 years of his life using money earned from his works to restore the crumbling monuments of his homeland and promote Mexican art and culture...
...adults in a movie about kids. But novice writer-director David Gordon Green doesn't consign them to the oblivion of stereotype. He respects all the creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears, he has upended and ennobled that box-office staple, the troubled-teen film. From the whispers of his precocious...
...point of view, the children are one more threat to the multi-million-dollar-a-year tourist business, already reeling from political and ethnic instability and three years of drought. Driven by poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour from rural villages into Nairobi, where street crime, according to Nairobi Central Business District Association chairman Philip Kisia, has increased in direct proportion to their numbers. Yet little has been done about them. Says Kariuki: "The government cannot deal with street kids and hopes the private sector--especially the tourism industry--can subsidize...