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...About My Mother” (1999) and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (1988). With “Volver,” he focuses on the bonds between women. As is typical in his films, the males in the film are weak and pathetic, while females, strong and resilient, overcome whatever situations life hands them. In one of the film’s last scenes, Irene tells Raimunda the circumstances of her death and the reason why she has returned. Capturing the power of the bond between mother and daughter, their emotional honesty...
...Shanley’s dramatic web, the violated student’s mother (Caroline Steffanie Clay), crosses the other characters only once, in a ten-minute scene that also earned original star Adriane Lennox a Tony Award. Unlike Lennox’s acting, Clay’s is weak, and despite the high emotion written into the role, her performance is neither shocking nor compelling. However, her scene is isolated enough from the rest of the play not to affect the story arc too detrimentally, and she is by no means incompetent...
...said, “but eventually it’s not good enough to be in it, we’ve got to start winning some of these games.”The Crimson was able to stay close in part because of its three-point shooting defense. A weak spot all season, Harvard held Penn to just 1-of-10 shooting from beyond the arc.“It’s something we’ve struggled with all year, but we did a good job tonight,” Goffredo said. “We tried...
...Afghanistan, a weak government has produced a security vacuum that in turn inhibits economic development and diversification, forcing impoverished farmers to grow lucrative crops like the opium poppy for cash. Any deliberate crop destruction carried out by the Afghan government often drives poor farmers to sympathize with the insurgency. Just two weeks ago, despite international pressure, President Karzai said Afghanistan would not carry out chemical spraying of poppy crops, given the intense level of opposition among farmers...
Should they feel pressure to wed at all? As Bella DePaulo demonstrates in her (ponderously titled) 2006 book Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, the evidence that marriage makes us happy and healthy is quite weak. It's true that currently married people report slightly higher levels of happiness than single people. (In one big study that DePaulo cites, being married was associated with a 0.115-point increase in life satisfaction on a 0 to 10 scale.) But researchers can't reliably determine which causes which, the marriage or the happiness...