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...Adidas on one of the many shelves, I hopped through the icy foyer into the warm, incensed air of the Krishna center. I was late, and an enthusiastic vocal mishmash of "Hare Hare'' was already pouring from the ceremony room. Parquet floors and velvet-tinsel wallpaper surrounded a gleaming swirl of wooden staircases and crystal chandeliers --it seemed more like a British bed'n'breakfast than an eastern temple, and my brain-washing scenario faded in the face of architectural banality...
...results of the plebescite demonstrate the enormous support Aquino still holds among the people. After two coup attempts and innumerable other threats to her presidency, Aquino is truly the political beast that won't die. Like Reagan in his halcyon days, she seems to stand above the swirl of events that surround her. In a country in which dishonesty and politics go hand in hand, Aquino is the non-political politician, the woman who claimed she was nothing more than a housewife...
...soul. Eduardo Serrano crosses the stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao (the Well-Married...
...Army units, were ordered to hold their fire, when a regiment of Brigadier General Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson's Southerners, dressed in blue at this stage of the war, were mistaken for friendly forces. Cannons boomed, muskets cracked, horses reared in the dust. Confused and frightened soldiers stumbled through the swirl of smoke. Then, along the Sudley Springs Road, near Henry House, came Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's fresh troops, who had just arrived from Manassas. The Northern advance faltered. A Union private yelled, "I can't see!" as he stumbled and fell into the weeds. Another Northerner lost...
LYNE POPULATES THE exterior world of his movie with gaily chatting and arguing New York ethnics who swirl around his android WASP heroes like flies around a honeycomb. Lyne, in his indominatable style, means to make fun of the Chinese, Blacks, and Italians who blithely live on the surface world of lowtech New York. But the seemingly irrelevant visions of a polyglot urban landscape only serve to underscore the irrelevance and emptiness of Rourke and Basinger's protagonists...