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...fathers and friends,” Homaifar says. The writing does shed light on a topic often excluded from polite conversation, but does not seem to offer a solution to this growing problem. Each story walks a fine line between portraying a powerful message and sinking into a familiar trope. But occasional clichés aside, the reader is intended to gain inspiration and hope from these stories of survival. “People can survive this,” says editor Karolina M. Lempert ’09. By putting these difficult topics into a more public forum, Saturday...
...fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense horror of Amin's genocidal rule...
...rk’s lighthearted jumping on cars, dancing with a mailbox, and flying through the air, we get Wolf reviving a dead motorcyclist, wearing a leopard print hoodie (or oversized potato sack?), and surrounding himself with uninspired dancing townspeople. Lesson Three: Don’t attempt a vintage trope unless you have something to add. The music video musical concept is well-worn, but it can be candy-coated wonderful—if the confection comes to life with the right spoonful of imagination...
...from which all the innocence has suddenly been sucked out. It's a truly riveting memoir. But just as crucial to its success is its arrival at what might be called a cultural sweet spot for the African child soldier. The kid-at-arms has become a pop-cultural trope of late. He's in novels, movies, magazines and on TV, flaunting his Uzi like a giant foam hand at a baseball game. He's in the latest James Bond movie and The Last King of Scotland and is the key plot point of Blood Diamond. His American cousin...
...song?s sentiment was common, almost a trope, in '50s R&B: Baby, please don?t go, cause I love you so. (Ray Charles did two or three in this vein.) But, as one of Brown?s rare songs with more than three chords, it had some musical ingenuity: a desperate statement following by him and the saxes in a slow, keening descent...