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Bandit Queen, written by Mala Sen and directed by Shekhar Kapur, is a vibrant, instructive document with a fierce star performance by Seema Biswas. The film has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; it moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have...
Rudenstine, appearing vibrant after a month in Europe, seemed to enjoy himself during his hour at the picnic...
Actually, the contemporary poet's situation isn't altogether grim. What it is is complicated, in ways that Moyers rarely plumbs. Poetry readings and workshops, as he triumphantly points out, are flourishing; poetry as a communal, spoken experience--something to be shared with other listeners--seems far more vibrant today than a couple of decades ago. On the other hand, the market for poetry on the page remains dismal, and many trade publishers have abandoned it altogether. (This has led to a surreal situation in which talented poets sometimes find themselves wishing for rejection; they can't even manage that...
While cyberspace is still a murky universe for many grownups, it is becoming a playground of vibrant invention for more and more of America's children. TIME got a keen sense of just how innovative these computer kids can be when we invited students from the U.S. and Canada to submit their online creations to our first Internet contest...
...Randomization] would be like taking all thegays and lesbians in San Francisco and New Yorkand relocating them in even numbers throughout theUnited States," Yee said. "This would be at theexpense of the vibrant gay adult community in NewYork and San Francisco today. That's how I thinkof Adams and Dunster," Yee said...