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Almodovar called the process of writing a script a “very mysterious process...
...curmudgeon, but I’m sick of talking to people when I have no desire to listen to them speak. The standard script of “My name is X,” “My name is Y,” “Nice to meet you” gets stale, especially during these first weeks of the semester. As a second semester senior, I’ve feigned enough smiles to decorate a dentist’s office and—just like all of you—I’ve said...
...just the sermons of radical clerics that brainwash young Thai Muslims. On many of the youths killed on April 28, a 65-page booklet was found. TIME has seen a copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling...
...movie, which is due to open May 6, has already stirred some controversy. Five scholars of various faiths, given a purloined copy of the script by the New York Times, reached opposite and predictable conclusions. The Catholic thought it was fair; the Muslim cried foul. Whatever the truth of the film, it's bound to provoke extreme reactions at a sensitive time...
...giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick in 1962. DIED. YANG HUANYI, late 90s, believed to be the last writer and speaker of a rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles...