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...account of Indian lives in Trinidad that was clearly based on the experiences of Naipaul's father, as well as of his own. But Family Letters provides additional glimpses into Vido's early preoccupation with themes that would later fill his travel writing and fiction, including alienation and the tenuous relationship between the Third World and its Old World colonizers...
...commune life degenerates into a nightmare reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge...
...While Harvard's other presidential contender--a man named Gore--buries Harvard references as deep as they go and plays up his tenuous Tennessee farming connections, Keyes plasters Harvard all over his literature. His standard introduction and self-description notes his Harvard government Ph.D. and refers to him as a "true intellectual." "It's always something that's mentioned, that he got his degrees from Harvard. It shows people he's a scholar, that he's intelligent," according to Dimitri Smierenski, the national coordinator of Students for Keyes2000. He says that Keyes likes to say he's not sure...
...Wade is tenuous. It's being attacked all the time," she says, "Politically, there's a lot going on; Congress is trying to get things barred...
...staff seems to me inconsistent, though, when it simultaneously endorses the "slippery slope" argument used by these justices they criticize. Allowing Congress to declare that violence against women substantially affects commerce does not mean that any tie to commerce--no matter how tenuous--allows federal regulation. Both Congress and 36 of the states have agreed that this is an issue of extreme importance worthy of a federal remedy. It seems that the only ones fighting this law are the conservative jurists trying to play a role in the "new revolution" in Constitutional law--resurrecting states' rights...