Word: unbrokenness
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...born with two toes per foot. But they're suffering from worse things than outsiders' disdain. The area's 500-plus orphans know why the choristers wrote Iwe AIDS: "You killed my father, you killed my mother ... I remain all alone." Dry, cracked streambeds are evidence of the unbroken drought. Some villagers are eating tree bark. More than 150,000 in the Matabeleland North province rely on foreign food aid. Here, as elsewhere, hardship is linked to politics. In the 2000 parliamentary elections, the mdc swept all eight seats in the province, its rural heartland. Last year, 61% of Matabeleland...
...egalitarian spirit unbroken by success, Panino refuses to take reservations. Instead you’ll meet a well-dressed college graduate in her late twenties, conspicuously thinner than anyone else working there, pen and clipboard in hand. She’ll ask for your name and how many in your party and give you an estimate of the wait that is as attractive as it is wildly wrong...
This could have been just the greatest, daftest, most elaborate stunt in movie history--a single, unbroken, 87-min. Steadicam shot that winds and pirouettes as it accompanies an unseen narrator and a 19th century French marquis (Sergei Dontsov) through 33 rooms of the State Hermitage Museum in an attempt both to give us a tour of the St. Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist...
...that's the point. No studio, in Hollywood or Hong Kong, produced an unbroken necklace of masterpieces. The variety of the Shaw library will become more evident as we see it whole, in films good and bad. So we look forward to the next batch, due Dec. 19?with more films from Chang Cheh and Chor Yuen and Li Hanxiang, more swoony romances and breakneck comedies and kooky musicals?and to all the Shaw films waiting to get a new life for a new generation. Sir Run Run, still alive at 95, must feel like a proud young father again...
...these remaining patches of wilderness that the endangered bears are making their last stand. We don't have much left to offer of what the grizzlies need: big, wild country without roads. They need these lands desperately, absolutely: lands that are an echo of what was once an unbroken frontier...