Word: thirst
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...thief, a homeless ghetto kid in the imperial city of Agrabah, ruled by a flustery Sultan and his Vincent Price-y adviser Jafar. On the streets Aladdin meets the Sultan's daughter Jasmine, who has rejected every royal suitor in the Middle East. Love and ambition smite Aladdin; a thirst for adventure seizes Jasmine. In fact, each of the main characters seeks freedom: Aladdin from poverty, Jasmine from her regal confinement, the Sultan from Jafar's silky domination, and the Genie from an eternity in the lamp...
...example, a radiant image of a boy sipping from a shadowy stream of falling water is entitled "Sed Publica" (Public Thirst). The commentary gives some interesting information about ancient sacrifice rituals and the Aztec's conception of water as life source. But Bravo's provocative title refers to a contemporary socio-economic reality which the commentary ignores. Similarly, the series of female nudes titled "Xipe" are explained solely in reference to the ancient "flayed goddess" of the same name. Yet the headless images of bodies criss-crossed with jagged shadows and leaves bear a resemblence...
...sixth day, I was very hungry, but the thirst was even worse. I was coming to a settlement but didn't know what kind. I saw a spring of water near a house. I couldn't focus my eyes as I went to it to drink. I heard young girls passing; one of them cried, "Mehmet, coffee is ready." A stone fell from my heart; they were Muslims. The dog with them ran at me, and I climbed a tree. Two men came with a gun. "Help me, brothers," I said. "I'm completely unarmed." When they'd called...
...people still waiting in the exposed courtyard have propped aluminum pots on their heads in a vain attempt to shield themselves from the heat. Others have tried to squeeze into the pool of shade offered by a scraggly tree. A teary- eyed little girl, throat dry with thirst, slips by the guards and pleads for a jug of water. She is angrily rebuffed. Workers have grown accustomed to the desperate, and few have pity, any longer, to spare...
...evidence, accumulating for months, is now inescapable: like an addiction, hatred is consuming the people who used to call themselves Yugoslavs. Every throat slit makes someone else thirst for blood. "They killed my husband and son," says a tearful Bosnian refugee. "They burned our home. But they can never rest easy, because one day we will do the same to them, or worse. My children will get their revenge, or their children." No one anywhere can pretend any longer not to know what barbarity has engulfed the people of the former Yugoslavia...