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Kwon-taek acknowledged the awkward disconnect between his work and much of the audience: “If you are a first time viewer [of my films] it is not strange to perceive them as strange or unfamiliar. But I have tried to provide points of access for you into them.” And indeed he did: the characters that populate his films, in spite of their inhabitation of a distant continent during a remote century, are comprehensible, relatable, and accessible. The HFA should strive to makes its screenings the same...
Sanger explains that the press corps would routinely travel with Summers, and reporters from the Wall Street Journal recall flying with him on his whirlwind tour of Asia in 1998. According to several accounts, Summers usually treated unfamiliar journalists with a tightlipped cautiousness, keeping much of what he said “off the record,” but as he grew better acquainted with them, he would quickly grow comfortable, friendly, and invariably frank...
...purposeful meaning, as in the emotional tribute to Boone’s deceased son, Israel, which provides a startlingly graphic yet real and passionate description of the way a person like Boone might react to seeing his young son’s buzzard-ridden carcass. Despite the inherently unfamiliar nature of the work, set roughly in the latter half of the 18th century, the elements of human nature are stunningly resonant with the contemporary reader...
Such is the divide in Iraq on the eve of its ready-or-not plunge into democracy: heady optimism on one street, jittery paranoia down another. In a country roiled by insurgency and sectarian tensions, occupied by a foreign army and populated by citizens largely unfamiliar with the democratic process, this is a time of profound uncertainty. The U.S. and the interim Iraqi government are hopeful that at least half the country's 15 million eligible voters will take part in the election, but no one can predict with any certainty what the turnout will be, especially among the disaffected...
...They figure that if they place financial pressures on this fellow, they’ll stop others from doing this same,” said Milgrim, who was unfamiliar with the case. “A preliminary injunction issued by a California court is useless against a Massachusetts or New York resident. But they seek damages and this young man will have to appear and he will have to hire a lawyer...