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...emerges from The Wind That Shakes the Barley with a very acute sense of the mess and muddle of revolutionary action, a feeling that though the cause being served may be fine in principle, the means by which it is being advanced are ambiguous, soul-wasting. And perpetually haunting...
...title does not exactly sing seductively: The Wind that Shakes the Barley. What are we talking about here - agronomy? Nor does its narrative - 1920s Ireland in the throes of what we would now call an "insurgency" - provide the analogies to current events that it would have been easy to make. Then there's the Ken Loach problem. He is a mild-mannered English leftist who has been for years making earnest, naturalistic, rather conventionally mounted studies about working-class topics that do not make the cinephile's aesthete spirit leap in anticipation. He's the kind of guy who turns...
...world - though, again, Loach allows our thoughts to drift in that direction without guidance from him. Loach may not be a sockeroo filmmaker - I think he is a sufficient one in his slightly stodgy way - but he is manifestly a good and thoughtful man and The Wind That Shakes the Barley represents his gifts at something like their best. It is more than worth your while...
...second term as Chief Executive-the strangely apt title for the head of Hong Kong's government. But the vote is restricted to the 800 members of an electoral college who are drawn from assorted business, professional and social groups. Most of them tend to bend whichever way the wind from Beijing is blowing. And, these days, it is blowing in Tsang's favor. Though he is facing a challenger from the city's democratic camp-lawyer and lawmaker Alan Leong-Tsang already commands 641 nominations from the Election Committee, and will defeat Leong handily in the ballot, which takes...
...Lieberman lost the democratic primary because his constituents know that he is a lightweight shifting his allegiance as the wind blows, trying to play both sides of every issue. He is the poster child for term limits in our Congress. He is still there because he is working the system for his own good, rather than for the benefit of the American people. How do we get rid of him? Boyce Abbott Chicago...