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...exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile, "as much as I've loved staying in the 19th century, maybe it would be interesting to have a change." Stark as the differences are, the acute sense of period and themes of lesbian love and relationships unfolding that distinguished Waters' earlier work get full play in this vivid, compassionate re-creation of 1940s London, which starts postwar and reverses into the Blitz. Her characters seem to be taking life one day at a time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers...
...rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push, and at wages that are a small fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on jobs and salaries worldwide is likely to continue. Ford's late-January restructuring, involving 30,000 job losses, demonstrates that theme...
...falling ..." Hunting had given him "great pleasure" in the past, but he wasn't so sure now. In fact, he sounded a lot like the combat veterans I've spoken with over the years, for whom the living nightmare of firing a weapon under questionable circumstances is a constant theme...
...work is part of a group installation at the Linden Street Studios the class “VES 130r, Criticality, the Body, and ‘Other Things’” put up of which only four of the pieces are here. The theme for the project was a hospital, and each student used ready-made objects to create a contribution...
...Sexy has avoided that fate: The five-piece band from Vancouver already knows exactly what it does best. Its third full-length release, Panic When You Find It, is a technically superb, 60s-influenced pop-rock album--and doesn't pretend to be more. There is no overarching theme in the often dark lyrics that songwriter Paul Hixon Pittman says he "usually think[s] about a year later," long after he's written them. Pittman's favorite song on the disc, 5/4, was named after its time signature since the band couldn't come up with another name...