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Mohamed ElBaradei has taken Egypt's stagnant political scene by storm since his reincarnation two months ago from Nobel Peace Prize-winning international nuclear watchdog to domestic reform campaigner. But any effort to push the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak into making democratic concessions is unlikely to succeed without the support of the only opposition force in Egypt with a real grass-roots following: the banned Muslim Brotherhood. That leaves ElBaradei facing the question of whether to make common cause with a party regarded with suspicion by many secular democrats. (Watch TIME's video "10 Questions for Mohamed ElBaradei...
...were blocked at the entrance of something.” While the endings of many of O’Connor’s short stories leave her reader with a sense of unease and uncertainty towards the human condition, “Wise Blood” ends with a scene of banal mystery that is not worth exploring...
Libenson herself says that she wants the audience to feel connected to whatever is happening on the stage, whether it is with the most dramatic scene of the play or some of its more light-hearted situations...
...need to care. If you don’t care, you are laughing at them,” she says. “We stop the action for the main couple to have a truly emotional moment, but then as soon as the scene is over we are right back into the action. We don’t want [the emotions] to hold down the comedy...
Their acting chops are especially evident in the most memorable scene of the movie, in which the brothers have to decide whether to slaughter unarmed soldiers so that their own troops don’t have to starve or honor their promise to spare and feed the soldiers. Er Hu, moved by compassion, starts to feed the soldiers and plead for their lives, while General Pang, the ruthless and strategic general, has Er Hu locked up so that he cannot protest the massacre of the unarmed soldiers. Lau’s desperate clawing at his chains and guttural shouts...