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...shopping area would be complete withoutfood, and Rebecca's Santa Fe Express Cafe fillsthat void...
...thus powerless. Their mothers aredisappointed at such weakness, remembering theirown unabashed acts of bravery in the face ofadversity. The imagery accompanying the tales ofLena and her mother Ying Ying (France Nuyen) isparticularly suggestive, contrasting theoverabundance of passion in the mother's past,with the daughter's current emotional void. In aflashback filled with thunder and lightening, YingYing recalls a fight with her unfaithful husband...
...credit, Kaurismaki manages to fill the film's emotional void with a truly brilliant absurdist humor--as if Samuel Beckett had collaborated with him on the screenplay. As funny as this can be, the characters suffer from their constant deadpanning (as in Beckett). They lose depth, becoming suckers for the director's mocking...
...first five books of the Old Testament into slang, insists that she is not "dissin' the Almighty." She has written biblical poetry and essays and developed the book by telling stories to children in Atlanta and Houston. The 39-year-old single mother believes she's filling a void. "While this is slang, it is not irreverent," she says. "It's a dramatic, colorful way of speaking. I think teenagers are going to like reading it because it gives them that Afrocentric flavor they can relate...
...advocates of economic progress and, as Robinson puts it, "the concept allows them to play with the big boys and have an impact on huge development projects." If sustainable development proves illusory, environmentalists will be left with a huge problem: there is no big idea ready to fill the void. With human numbers expected to double in the next 60 years, policymakers must now find some new trail map that will enable humanity to walk the ledge between rising material expectations and the wholesale collapse of the biosphere...