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...necessarily spring from behind a bush. They're much more likely to come to us in the form of rumors or news broadcasts or an escalation of the federal terrorism-threat level from orange to red. It's when the risk and the consequences of our response unfold more slowly, experts say, that our analytic system kicks in. This gives us plenty of opportunity to overthink--or underthink--the problem, and this is where we start to bollix things...
...probably guess who's going to win the struggle for these young souls. And once the film begins to unfold you will with equal ease see the chink in Hector's armor. He is a gay man, given to groping his students when he gives them rides home on his motorcycle. The kids are entirely unshocked by this behavior. As far as they're concerned its just part of Hector's wayward charm. Not so the headmaster, when the teacher is caught out. He's never much liked Hector's classroom style and the question of whether the teacher will...
...series has a long history, which means its subjects have developed an ambiguous self-consciousness about their participation in it. But that only adds depth to the films, which are now being duplicated by other hands in other countries. Watching these lives unfold has been for Apted something like "living in a Victorian novel"--one that he says "becomes more intimate and emotional" for him (as it does for us) as the years accumulate. --By Richard Schickel...
...days weaving string bags to give away to passers-by. All of the films are characterized by long, static shots—whether of an argument between brothers or an attempt to free a cow’s head from a jug—that allow events to unfold as they do in reality. The films largely resist attaching a narrative or an explicit meaning to their subjects, instead seeming to focus on the minute details briefly before moving to the next topic. Dvortsevoy, who came to filmmaking after aviation engineering, tries to minimize his presence in his own films...
...don’t think that a discussion over the practical options available for dealing with North Korea is productive because, realistically, there aren’t many. Regardless of how exactly they unfold every military scenario is pretty uniformly, and bloodcurdlingly, awful. I don’t think any of the oft-demonized neocons, even in their most fevered dreams of post-Saddam Iraqi bliss, ever imagined that the military “option” for dealing with North Korea was anything other than an extreme last resort. Sanctions are already being tried but, to have any real...