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...with the effects of war on children around the world. Teer still has that same lost expression today, but added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking...
...opening shots of India and the ship to America, seemingly suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
...cannot describe the tone of most of the articles as anything but masturbatory. Reading certain passages, I felt an unwilling thrust upon a personal moment between the Peninsula staffers past and present...
...feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death is recorded in the bird's splayed legs, thrust out as if in a last convulsion, and in its upcurving wing, like a final memory of flight...
...Student's feel they're getting screwed over bythe Coop," he said. "The main thrust behind [mycampaign] is to make the Coop more of aservice-oriented organization than a profit-drivenorganization...