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...Since L. Paul Bremer handed over authority, the Iraqi government has done a terrible job of, well, governing. The thin bench of Iraqi politicians is made up mostly of rich exiles like the Pentagon-backed Ahmed Chalabi, Iran-funded Islamists and, well, just straight up crooks. There has yet to emerge an Iraqi prime minister who stayed in Iraq while Saddam was in power. First there was the U.S.-backed Ayad Allawi, who was widely perceived among Iraqis as a CIA patsy and whose defense minister oversaw the disappearance of more than $1 billion during his eight-month tenure. Then...
...cabaret-style show starring both Viglione and Palmer and built around the Dolls’ music, which ran at the American Repertory Theatre last December. Viglione was the one who approached the OFA about this second Harvard workshop. PALE-FACED LESSONS Viglione—pale, thin and dressed all in black—began the workshop with a demonstration, stresed that his goal in playing was not to show a “demo of his tricks” but to encourage students to play beyond their own limits. Nonetheless, his tricks were in full effect when he played...
...love, not war” philosophy (how original) still boasts an unique interwoven character-driven storyline to distinguish it from a straight-up history lesson. This fundamental cinematic approach can make such films engaging, as seen in “Three Kings” or “The Thin Red Line.” Unfortunately, each character in “Barley” lacks a three-dimensional personality and fails to interact with others in any sort of compelling way. Screenwriter Paul Laverty and director Loach leave no room for an actual narrative between the film?...
...only a sign of her distance from real life. Smiley is so caught up with the academic arguments of war that she loses touch with the things that make a novel: characters, narrative, and a personal aesthetic.But even if characters are ill-sketched and the narrative remains thin, Smiley has a gift for identifying beauty and breaking it down.Back in the bedroom, Max films Elena with a camcorder: “He lifted the camera to his eye again, and focused it just on the curve of her back as it shaped her waist, then swelled into her buttock. When...
...bré” series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked open just enough to cast thin stripes of light on a female model. The blinds filter the light in long straight lines, but upon the body each line curves, thickens, and thins in its own unique way. In these slyly minimal photographs, Clergue most creatively celebrates the female form, for which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here...