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...more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads at us and shake their fists at us in silent sorrow and accusation." No one knows that sorrow better than Zakes Mda, whose 2000 The Heart of Redness, about the assault of modernity on traditional ways...
...figured they had their man. "Geishas are trained much like dancers, and as a choreographer and a former dancer who understands disciplined training, Rob had a natural affinity for their life," says Wick. He and Fisher pursued the director as one would a geisha--sending him bottles of sake, antique prints. "I tried to put the gifts away," says Marshall, "but I couldn't. They hooked...
...negotiations with Harvard. Board Vice Chairman Manning said that this dispute was diverting time from negotiations with Harvard. “We will not continue to battle a small group of residents, and therefore it’s looking like its time to move on, for the sake of all of our residents,” Manning said in the statement. Debby Giovanditto, the president of the Charlesview Residents Organization, the group that filed the HUD complaint, said that the Board’s comments were an example of the Board’s “holier than thou?...
...days of “I Spit on Your Grave” and those horrible Paul Morrissey/Andy Warhol movies like “Blood for Dracula.” But here I am, pining for the years of sickening rape-revenge movies and dismembered body parts. For the sake of clarity though, it’s not sex and violence that we’re missing. Certainly this year’s “House of Wax” remake was plenty gory, and the neo-slashers of the last ten years have featured supple amounts of nubile flesh...
...Obviously, these numbers are idealized, and we will never turn away a girl whom everyone loves simply for the sake of meeting a quota. But, keep these numbers in mind as we progress through the punch process...