Word: townes
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Depth PerceptionThe notion of a tsunami engulfing a village has to be startling to Asian viewers, who surely recall the devastation wreaked by the December 2004 Indian Ocean disaster. But in the movie, it's as if Sosuke's town has just gone through a cleansing car wash. "Rather than the tsunami destroying the town," Miyazaki says, "I took it as her own sense of life overflowing, and that helped to revitalize the town. None of the buildings were destroyed in the flood. You can see them all beneath the water. That's magic...
...many Americans does 59-year-old Craig Anthony Miller speak for? The answer isn't simple. From Maryland to Michigan to Missouri, lawmakers on their August recess encountered voters skeptical or downright livid about health-care reform--and some who turned up at town halls to applaud it. In many places, the shouting started hours before the doors opened, as the armies for and against waited outside by the thousands just...
Opponents of "Obamacare" tried to buy time with the far-fetched claim that reform would leave federal "death panels" to decide which ailing seniors deserved lifesaving care. In other places, rumor drove the debate. At a town hall outside Detroit, a man complained to Democratic Representative John Dingell that his mentally handicapped son would "be given no care" under the Obama plan...
...skirmishes gathered momentum on cable TV, the White House attempted to turn a position of weakness into an opportunity: with its opponents overplaying their hand, the Administration scheduled a series of town halls with Obama to calm the situation. "People who want to keep things the way they are will try to scare the heck out of folks," he said in Portsmouth, N.H. "They'll create bogeymen out there that just aren't real...
...families have been making a mass exodus from cities to the contentment of suburbia. In Reloville, Peter T. Kilborn focuses on a more recent phenomenon: work-imperative relocation. "Relos" must contend with an ultra-competitive job market, now made worse by recession, that drags them and their families from town to town. Kilborn examines the price families pay in Relovilles as they try to maintain a bit of consistency in their lives and concludes that the trend isn't so much good or bad as just rather...