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...indifference is a kind of fealty, especially when facing a vast propaganda campaign. Every night for months the top story on the evening news has shown peasants digging ditches for the greater glory of China. In Beijing, the government claims that 2.5 million people have "volunteered" to sweep streets and swab bicycle racks before the congress. Thousands of red flags line boulevards in the capital, and billboards in Tiananmen Square celebrate the "victorious opening" of the congress. By quietly putting up with the inanity of it all, Chinese affirm their acquiescence. Li Shuzhen is one such person. She lives...
...carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida that inventiveness has diminished to a kind of strained cuteness. Everything that makes an artist an artist--the obsessions, the egotism--is ignored in favor of upbeat movie conventions. --By Richard Schickel...
...Crimson advanced to the fifth place game in the tournament versus No. 5 seed MIT, winning 10-6 and completing a four-game season sweep of the Engineers. Tselentis played in his final game for the Crimson shortly after returning from South Africa...
...stands slightly hunched over the pulpit, cloaked in his trademark three-piece black suit, his wide eyes staring out at the audience. His arms sweep through the air, reinforcing each word that he utters, keeping time with the cadence of his speech. Though he’s preaching in a church, on a Sunday afternoon, this man is no minister. His name is Cornel West...
...Crimson (12-7, 7-1 Ivy) rebounded from a 3-1 setback to Penn on Friday—its first league loss of the season—to sweep past Princeton 3-0 and stay atop the Ivy standings...