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...scene that continually recurs shows the poet's home a small wooden house by a lake, surrounded by birch trees, cattle, and unknown human figures in the eerie twilight of a summer night...
...Anna Thomas have created a fat-free and vibrant script; virtually every line is soaked with relevance and insight. The spareness of El Norte's storyline never lapses into maudlin simplicity; on the contrary, it only fosters depth. The straightforward courage of its central figures (ingenuously portrayed by unknown actors) accentuates the tragedy of their fates. "All things are lent to us," Rosa chants at her father's funeral, an astonishingly forgiving utterance, given the circumstances. But it is precisely such humility and understatement that imbues the story with disturbing conviction...
...swollen face appeared to be that of a youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick up a 6½-in. by 4½-in.. book found with the dead soldier. He then handed...
...information. It has no information of its own; it follows, then, that it must rely on others to manufacture the stuff. The Government is the great smithy of information. Appreciating this, Reagan's men opened the doors to the workshop and escorted reporters inside in a way hitherto unknown in Washington. They literally told them everything. For the press, always the outsider, always operating on suspicion and guesswork and animosity, it was a dream come true. It had never before had sources like this. And, of course, the press could not risk losing these sources by offending them...
...autopsies to have blood vessels narrowed by atherosclerosis. Their average age: 22. The arteries of the young soldiers in the opposing forces-Koreans raised on a diet of rice and vegetables-showed no such damage. In regions where famine is rife and meat is scarce, cardiovascular disease is virtually unknown...