Word: veils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though "The Boys of St. Vincent" is not an easy movie to watch, it explores issues which have long been covered by a veil of tightlipped silence. Because of the reality embedded in these uncomfortable and perverse themes, the film encountered a long journey of censorship difficulties with Canadian television. After garnering both widespread praise for its honest portrayal of corruption in the Catholic Church, as well as criticism from those who saw the film as an affront to the Church's authority, this powerfully chilling drama-documentary has landed at the Museum of Fine Arts. With recent talk...
...will stay engaged and remain an influence, but ((her role)) will be more informal. She won't be a point person on a given policy." The difference in her role, stresses the official, is one of "approach" and not intensity. "She's not going to start talking through a veil," says Planned Parenthood's Ann Lewis, a friend of Mrs. Clinton...
...system is good; our attitudes need readjustment. The political healing of America must be a subtle thing that comes voluntarily and from within us. People must decide that our society is something worth spending time on, and must then discard the easy veil of cynicism and take a deeper look at matter...
What has ensued is more than two years of undeclared war. The Islamists--and particularly the Armed Islamic Group, the most radical element in their camp--have perpetrated some gruesome acts of violence against Algerian politicians and intellectuals, women who don't wear the veil and, as of last year, foreigners...
Emmanuel Ax returns with his rich and globular tone, but more often than not in this recording it acts as an obscuring miasmic veil, rather than a complement to the strings. He has an extremely heavy left hand and a matching right foot on the sustaining pedal. His efforts are more appropriate for piano concerti than for these subtly textured chamber works...