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Hearts of Atlantis opens with a slightly confused image: Through the lens of Bobby’s camera, we see a large, multi-faced crystal sphere. The faces of the crystal bend the light that passes through them in dazzling ways, distorting our view of reality and of the photograph lying behind the sphere. Through the lit orb, perception is filtered and altered, and Hearts in Atlantis, more than anything else is a story of filtered and altered perception...
Going into Hearts in Atlantis, I hoped very much that this would be one of the exceptional adaptations. I had high expectations...which were fulfilled. This powerful and poignant tale, as multifaceted as the crystal sphere from the opening credits, is rendered beautifully in the more than capable hands of Scott Hicks. An example of Hicks’ impressive and insightful direction involves his use of glass, mirrors and photographs as motifs to indicate the distance between object, observer and the accuracy of perception. Bobby drifts into his past while gazing through a glass windowpane in his childhood bedroom...
...Pentagon, Americans are not just rallying around the flag - they?re rallying around their president. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 84 percent approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, up from 78 percent two days after the attacks - and in a different sphere entirely from the mid-50s plateau he occupied throughout the spring and summer...
...Igor Ivanov said in Washington that former Soviet republics there would be free to make their own decisions while Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov categorically ruled out "even a hypothetical possibility" of a NATO military presence in Moscow's former territories, which it still considers an integral part of its sphere of influence. To underscore that view, Secretary of the Security Council General Vladimir Rushailo and Chief Of General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin traveled to Central Asia. Kvashnin had said last week: "Russia has not considered and is not planning to consider participation in a military operation against Afghanistan" as he reminded...
...contributed essays to Nam's book. The girls in the book talk honestly about body images, family conflicts, dating and so on. "At home, they're dealing with a whole series of cultural expectations placed on them by their parents," says Nam. "Then they enter the public sphere, and interact with their peers. Often, they grow up in environments where they were perhaps one of the only Asian-American girls in their school. So you're dealing with a lot of identity issues." Nam says that these girls are confronted with a troublesome stereotype, that of the passive, docile, exotic...