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...strategic "political decision." An important and deep-pocketed group of Wall Street yuppies--drawn to Wilson's pro-choice stance and fiscal conservatism--applauded his abandonment of a state they feel belongs to the religious right. But bravado can do only so much in the face of turmoil...
...play] focuses on the turmoil of life in the New York gay community in the '80s, and it spans the advent of the AIDS virus," Saunders said...
Director John Boorman, an artist-adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil, brought this sort of scenario alive in The Emerald Forest. Not so here, where he lapses into banal visual stereotyping: the rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies...
...Emerald Forest" earned director John Boorman stripes as an adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil. But in "Beyond Rangoon," an improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician...
...especially perilous. Senior writer Jill Smolowe and her husband Joe Treen (a senior editor at PEOPLE) traveled all the way to Yangzhou, China, to find their daughter Rebecca, and there were hazards all the way: interminable waiting lists; promising leads that fell through at the last minute; even political turmoil. As journalists, the couple were keenly aware that international events could at any moment close a door that had taken years to pry open. Just as they were about to leave for China, Washington and Beijing began fighting over trade issues, and rumors circulated that Deng Xiaoping, China's aging...