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...Lyudmila and Vladimir Putin will easily identify the air hostess and her husband - and as easily will guess the rest of the plot: an inexorable climb to the pinnacle of the Russian state. It does not deviate from their real bios except for some dramatic "improvements" for the sake of political correctness. In real life, unlike in the film, Lyudmila Putina rarely appears in public alongside her husband, nor does she join him on his numerous foreign and domestic trips...
Remember those Christmas Eves spent in the monochrome glow of ABC’s airing of the Capra classic “It’s A Wonderful Life,” with all the rapt huddling, the luminescent self-forgetting that entailed? Or, for the sake of universality, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”? I don’t, really—usually someone fell asleep midway through, or a fight broke out—but I’ve found a commendable cognate in YouTube...
...large rally in Seattle's NBA basketball stadium on Friday morning, suggesting that his calls for unity were not grounded enough. "I am hoping to unify the country," Clinton said. "But to unify it to do the work of the country, not just to unify it for the sake of saying, 'We're unified.' ... We need to be unified with a common purpose. The purpose is progress...
...Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit, no matter how dysfunctional (or possibly, in Noriko's case, homicidal) they...
...today’s Republican party, it is acceptable to make pernicious remarks against Hispanics in the name of border security. Outright racism is only thinly veiled. But it’s especially ironic that Mitt Romney, for the sake of political expediency, now attacks the immigration of citizens from the very same country that gave protection to his great-grandfather, grandfather and father and still hosts his cousins, nephews and nieces...