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...sun sets behind the Hamad al Niell mosque, the first drumbeats sound in the distance, drawing back the crowd in a receding tide to make way for a motley procession of ecstatic worshipers. These are the whirling dervishes of Omdurman, and their gathering every Friday at dusk, to pay homage to their Sufi leader who lies buried here, is the closest thing the Sudanese capital has to a tourist attraction...
...more knowing about how to photograph him than Soderbergh (who shot the film under the pseudonym Peter Andrews)? How come Damon is more handsome and engaging in person than in this movie? When Pitt is first spotted, he looks as though he fell asleep for a year under a sun lamp. Pacino it takes a few seconds to recognize; he too looks weird, and so does Barkin. Her face has the recognizable intelligence and insolence, but the rest of her seems somehow bronzed and sanded - an unfortunate impression for a comeback performance...
...colleagues at a Faculty meeting that day that Knowles would return “within a few days.” “As Christopher Robin put on his door for Winnie-the-Pooh to read,” Knowles wrote to professors, ‘Bak Sun!’” But only five days later, Knowles’ condition worsened, forcing Bok to ask David R. Pilbeam—then the senior adviser to the Dean of the College—to step in as FAS dean. “It’s been...
...poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the potential of oil revenues must feel completely removed from their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their crops wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know the answer, they aren't talking...
...serious but less serious than the first issue, less “adult” but more adult, Freeze 2 takes on the weight of the world, and after thinking about it carefully it looks they’re saying we should go and have some fun before the sun sets for good. And it’s going to set, is the thing. It’s setting now and we should be running for our lives...