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...other hand, Schreiber's film represents a bold attempt to integrate the themes of increasingly lost memories and the forgetful, distracted modern mind. That means the obsessive Jonathan has a more important historical role to play than he perhaps imagines. It also means that this often vivid movie, though it doesn't quite attain its highest intentions, is well worth seeing. And thinking about. --By Richard Schickel
...digest what he sees, to make sense of his experiences and most of all to escape. From a group of fellow officers being fed a sheep's-head dinner to missing his wife to watching a robot disarm a roadside bomb that nearly blew him up, Bout gives vivid, sometimes lyrical, descriptions of the smells, tastes and sounds of the Baghdad he sees. The cooling summer mornings, he says, "settle around you like a light winter coat." He uploads lots of photos too. "Some soldiers immerse themselves in video games; others click on their DVD players," he says. "I just...
...plane -- all knew of one another, vaguely, from school. The Clayton and Evans families were friendly. The Edge, whose family is Welsh, and Bono (still generally called Paul Hewson back then) had briefly gone to the same guitar teacher. For his part, Bono had a distant but still vivid impression of Clayton, who was raised outside London and in Kenya, and had moved to Dublin with his mother and airline-pilot father at the ( age of eight. He had come to Mount Temple from boarding school "pretty freaked, terrified I was going to get beat up. I thought the quieter...
...Chavez holds cards that make remarks like Robertson's all the more incendiary on the Latin American street, where language like "U.S. imperialism" suddenly has currency again. One is the past: Latin Americans have too many vivid and bitter memories of U.S. intervention in their countries-operations that sometimes included brazen assassinations -which is why the Bush Administration got burned by accusations it backed a failed coup against Chavez in 2002 (the White House denies the charge). Another is democratic legitimacy: Chavez, for all his authoritarian tendencies, is a democratically elected head of state who last year won a national...
...whipping up a rhythmic frenzy as the 75-member Fritsche Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Elliott Del Borgo's Aboriginal Rituals. In an art room, eighth-graders are shaping clay vessels to be baked in the school kiln. Down the hall, students are dabbing acrylic paints on canvas to create vivid still lifes ŕ la Vincent van Gogh. At 10:49, when the 82-min. arts period ends, kids of all sizes, colors and sartorial stripes pour out of classrooms, jostling and joking, filling the hallway with the buzz of pubescent energy. Then it's off to language arts, math, social studies...