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Bird will have none of that. In Forest Whitaker's performance (which is softly gliding in manner, ultimately wrenching in effect), Parker is an innocent, but he is not the victim of anyone but himself. His is the innocence not of the artist saint, self-consciously trying to soar beyond conventional morality, but that of the child egoist, unconsciously trapped in a premorality where appetite -- including the one for music -- is destiny, and escape to adulthood is not an option...
Poultry farmers, fishing fleets and cultivators of exotic flowers were wasted by Gilbert. Foreign-owned shoe and clothing factories that had been lured to Jamaica's tax-free zones suffered heavy water and structural damage. The unemployment rate, already 22%, was expected to soar as jobs vanished in the wind and rain. It was easy to see a metaphor of the island's economy in the plight of the smashed Kingston bank whose checks, in the aftermath, were suddenly caught up in a wind and scattered all over the downtown. "There were checks blowing around everywhere," retired Superstar Racing...
...Biden whispers to his wife Jill, "Neither did I." He takes her onto the podium with him, along with his kids, although he says he "usually does not go in for that type of stuff." His talk is simple, without the oratory that made his presidential campaign speeches soar but created doubts that this ambitious young Senator meant what he said. He talks of coming through his ordeal "unscathed but not ungrateful" and of how his wife took charge when that "stab of fear" hit him in the ambulance. There are no tears until he starts talking about his oldest...
...major that is not only meaningful but also marketable. Some must allocate time for a 20-hour-a-week job, as well as early morning classes and late-night study sessions. Alcohol and drugs remain an omnipresent lure and danger made more enticing than ever as stress levels soar. And the challenge of dating in the safe-sex era has shadowed even the illusion of a lighthearted passage to adulthood...
...anything, the National Geographic survey results highlight the danger of looking back at the expense of anticipating the future. As populations continue to soar in the Third World, the U.S. will represent a smaller and smaller proportion of the world's population. And economically, the Far East has already achieved unparalleled influence that will only continue to grow...