Word: vera
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...Zigzag Way (Houghton Mifflin; 159 pages), the connoisseur of displacement takes her sharp eye to Mexico, though all her main characters, as always, come from somewhere else. Eric, a mousy innocent abroad, has followed his grad-school girlfriend across the border and there runs into a fellow refugee, Dona Vera, who presides over a salon of sorts called the Hacienda de la Soledad, concealing her European past behind flamboyant displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners...
...because of its popularity and fecundity, is the most dramatic new influence on a justice system that has always been affected by books, movies and TV. "When Perry Mason first aired, lawyers were not allowed to approach witnesses to question them," says Christopher Stone, director of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that promotes innovation in the justice system. "But you couldn't fit Mason and the witness in the same frame, so the directors had Mason walk over and lean on the witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought...
...Vera Drake...
...spare” time, she performs simple abortions to “help out young girls,” as she conceives of it, in a British cultural climate in which doing so is almost unthinkably wrong. The pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowdedness—that of a prison...
...work, but she is not alone in this accomplished ensemble. The acting throughout is of extraordinary quality: a film that could have been all about a message becomes instead a portrait of a time, a place and a family. That in itself is a triumph, and something that makes Vera Drake stand out from the crowd...