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...Tibbetts for a 1992 profile in the Salisbury State University Literature Film Quarterly, "And I guess that's the way I still see movies - I want them to be occurrences, to just seem to be happening." In his Oscar speech, Altman compared the movie process to "making a sand castle at the beach." Actually, his movies were more circuses than castles, and Altman was the ringmaster, using his whip not on the actors (who loved the improvisatory freedom he allowed them) but on the audience (whom he wanted to get his point about the erratic, intransigent nature of the modern...
...with us during our walk. She confessed that she was wearing it with the stone turned down - sneaking peeks when no one was looking at the sparkle I liked so much. We did not notice. And we did not notice when she dropped the 1.5 carat diamond in the sand where it was never to be found again...
...fashioned dowry given by the bride's family was generally discussed privately and the money and goods went towards the new matrimonial home. A diamond just sits ostentatiously on a woman's hand for all to see (that is, when it's not getting lost in the sand...
...still more rifles hang from nails beneath a patch of tin roofing. His booth occupies prime real estate in the center of Mogadishu's Bakaraaha Arms Market, and he obsessively polishes his guns with an oil-stained rag in a battle against sand and grit. But few passersby show interest. Once one of the most bustling, bristling arms bazaars in the world, the Mogadishu weapons market is weathering a down cycle, with business a mere fraction of what it was in the days when warlords settled internecine grudges in the city's streets. Mohammed's average daily sales have dropped...
While marketers work to lure in the Christians, the person who best explains the spiritual impact of seeing Nativity may be Shohreh Aghdashloo, the Muslim actress from 24 and House of Sand and Fog. Aghdashloo, who plays Elizabeth, grew up reading her grandmother's Bible in Farsi as literature. "A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you," Aghdashloo said after seeing the film for the first time. "I felt light this morning when I left the theater, with a peace of mind. I was worried about it turning into preaching, but it didn't. It just told...