Word: warpedness
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BLANK, however, artfully presents much more in Burden of Dreams than merely Herzog's warped world. The movie contains beautifully photographed scenes of one of the most primitive sports on earth as well as glimpses of the culture of the local Indians and the problems they confront as the modern...
An enigmatic and unsatisfying conclusion? "But I didn't want, to write a book about the great rebels, who are really heroic, but about some more ordinary being," Sennett says with a smile, as he pours white wine for a visitor to his Manhattan home. "Grau thinks he has...
Khomeini has appointed Khoeyniha to direct Iran's mass hadj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, one of Islam's holiest rituals. His instructions: to foment agitation among the 2 million or so Muslims who will be flocking to Mecca in September. Khoeyniha will thus be Khomeini's agent to...
In one of his poems Hardy suggests the way the world looked to him: a primeval landscape dotted with "wind-warped" thorn, where a hawk circles above a hedgehog in a permanent Celtic twilight. Yet, somewhere on the far horizon of his stories, a tiny solitary figure can usually be...
This is all part of a long-standing and fundamentally warped view of China upheld in many American quarters. Public opinion and perceptions of the country have long swung from one extreme to the other, rarely stopping to look at the reality of the situation.