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Since the Battle of the Boyne over 300 years ago, both sides in this struggle have been stubborn, cruel and vicious. Both have been responsible for delays and derailments of the peace process in the past. Both have made tough concessions. However, this time the IRA is at fault. The group should realize that it has a genuine opportunity to lay down its arms honorably and finally participate in the government of Northern Ireland...
Burton responded to the list in a manner that some representatives said they found off-putting and stubborn...
...Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corp. Hu, 44, is a child of the Cultural Revolution; her parents were sent to labor camps while she served as a Red Guard. She taught herself English and in 1979 was among the first Chinese sent to U.S. schools. "I was always too stubborn," Hu says. So she wouldn't be cowed by a little thing like directing an epic in her homeland. "Americans and Chinese are very much alike," she says. "The film gives me a chance to get that message across...
...success of this attempt at full exposure is due in great part to the performances-this is perhaps the most precisely acted ensemble piece ever filmed. Robards, who has mastered the part of the stubborn old grump, is truly great here, shading Earl Partridge with the lowing regret and pained self-knowledge of a man acutely aware that his end is nearing. Two-thirds through the film, he delivers a soliloquy that tragically articulates the pall hovering over all of Magnolia's characters, and as he moans his words of warning, we can sense him clutching the pieces...
...response to that stubborn sense of mystery, visitors have characteristically tried to fill the emptiness with explanations, speculating about immigrants from outer space or heroic oarsmen from South America; foreigners see Basque influences here; and locals speak of the statues walking inland from the coast. The monoliths, thought to be between 600 and 1,300 years old, reflect back mostly the faces of those who look at them. John Dos Passos, in 1971, saw the island's parabolic cycle--the construction of extraordinarily impressive monuments, followed by their destruction--as a warning to "college radicals"; others see an allegory...