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...that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent night; for the foreign visitor it is enough merely to set foot in the country to experience that sense of dissociation, that loss of self and sense...
...dacha in the country outside Moscow, the self-absorbed extended family living there oblivious to events in the outside world, the visitor whose energy and mystery stir this nest of gentlefolk -- Burnt by the Sun has the air of something Chekhov or Turgenev might have imagined...
...Sergei Kotov (played by the director himself). Lost in contentment with his radiant young wife and adorable child, he does not see that, far from protecting him, his stature as a beloved hero of the revolution is precisely what makes him a threat to paranoid tyranny. He knows their visitor, Dimitri, works for the secret police but worries only that this handsome, charming man, his wife's lover, may reawaken buried emotions...
...have gotten to one of its most recent games five or 10 minutes late, you probably will have seen the scoreboard reading 3-0 for the visitor...
...think students are getting screwed," says Rudd W. Coffey '97, one of four council members on a student-administrator committee charged with overseeing the implementation of the Loker plans. "I don't want any student to get kicked out because a visitor from Oklahoma wants to eat lunch...