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...from the mid-1970s proved sketchy at best (and, as it happened, Laos had no actual chief coroner to consult). In writing about Laos' most politically tumultuous decade, Cotterill was thus left to fill in the blanks for himself. The latest Dr. Siri mystery, in particular, delves into the tragic history of the Hmong, an ethnic minority buffeted by the Vietnam War and later brutally oppressed in both Vietnam and Laos. "The problem with writing about Laos is information stops about 1978," Cotterill says. "There were a lot of things I wanted to say about the situation of the Hmong...
...Dubya's unexamined life - his pursuit of devastation policies with such messianic self-assurance - is not worth filming. Yes, the tragic hero usually comes to realize his crippling flaws, but maybe the greatest sin of a powerful man is in never, ever doubting himself. W. gives Bush a climactic wrinkle of copelessness, but the movie is mostly content to motor on familiar tracks. Like its central character, it seems never to have questioned itself about its mission or even asked if it had one. For this normally crazy-brilliant auteur, the last and lasting...
...Tristan and Isolde were really the lackluster lovers that the Sunday performance by the Boston Conservatory Orchestra (BCO) suggested, their ill-fated end may not have been so tragic after all. However, though passions were chilled when the BCO opened the afternoon performance in Sanders Theatre, they soon thawed as conductor Bruce Hangen coaxed the orchestra into a heart-warming rendition of Edward Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.Almost immediately after the lights dimmed and 24-year-old guest conductor Michael Sakir planted his feet on the podium, the orchestra jumped into a frenzied arpeggio...
...More hips, ladies, more hips!" scolds the cheerful instructor for the fourth time in as many minutes. Obligingly, my classmates and I traverse the dance floor like tragic auditioners for a hip-hop video. We, the participants in the High Heel Fitness Class & High Heel Walking Workshop, need more hips. We need to move our knees more. We need to tighten our core. We need to hold up our chests. We need, in short, to learn to walk again. This time in heels...
...axis of evil," casting tax cuts as the removal of "unfair burdens" on hardworking people, calling tariff reduction a "moral imperative." But THRIFT is one virtue he never invokes, and a restoration of restraint is a strain of conservatism he seldom promotes. In fact, it was after the most tragic day in modern U.S. history, when Bush urged people who wanted to help to "go shopping," that profligacy officially replaced prudence as a patriotic duty...