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Bury Me Standing is written with compelling passion and aphoristic grace, though its narrative of Gypsy history is unfortunately strewn through several chapters (perhaps the author felt that this scattershot approach was appropriate for a people whose tragic story is as meandering as the trail of a caravan). Fonseca certainly succeeds in her effort to draw attention to these often invisible people. She ends by noting that an emerging Gypsy elite has entered mainstream politics in Europe. Self-assertion, these leaders believe, is essential for Gypsy survival. Ironically, many whom they seek to help consider them traitors for abandoning...
...Rabin's tragic death, however, should be viewed from a different perspective: it should be regarded as a signal that both Arabs and Israelis are taking the peace process seriously for the first time since the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As paradoxical as this sounds, it is true: the inter-Arab rivalry, which erupted most recently in the Middle East Economic Summit in Amman last week when Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mousse warned Arab countries against "scurrying after" normalization with Israel only to be interrupted by King Hussein, who fired back that the "scurrying" is only to catch...
...GOOD TURTLE SOUP OR ONLY the mock? Or to put the question more directly, is the lengthy, unconsummated love affair between Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) one of the great tragic romances of our century or just another of those neurotic dithers the Bloomsbury crowd was always working themselves into...
...death of a parent is one of the most traumatic events that can in a child's life. It is even more horrific and unjust if suicide is involved. Jonathan Marc Sherman's tragic comedy "Woman and Wallace" examines the emotional fallout resulting from such a catastrophe through the youthful and neurotic sensibility of Wallace Kirkman (Jed Silverstein), a "Jewish boy from Jersey," whom we witness grow from childhood to adulthood in just over an hour and a half...
This film, in Hebrew with English subtitles, shocks us with its unmasking of this particular family. Through the eyes of Rachel, the only ostensibly "normal" individual in the film, we see are shown a group of tragic individuals--a blind, abusive father, a deadbeat son--in addition to the superstitious mother and disturbed older daughter already mentioned. Sh'chur is a harsh criticism of immigrant culture and the tragic characters we are shown help us empathize with Rachel's desire to escape...