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Director George Reyes has woven together some lovely contrasts: in one scene, the cacophonic screaming of 20 maniacs ceases in a split second, and a timid flute melody drifts up into the air like Bambi frightening away Godzilla. The choreography achieves an apt explication of abstract concepts when the three singers illustrate de Sade's case against equality. The "General Copulation" number, however, is a bit too fervent...
With the themes of documentation and education woven together, Fernandez said, Latino children can grow up with a more positive sense of their own culture...
...recent assassination of Justice Minister Guy Malary was handled by the army but carried out by Francois's men -- without his prior knowledge. Some Haitians see in this an army attempt to reduce Francois's power. A military officer who watches Francois closely says Haiti's top cop has woven his own power structure and manages it with considerable skill. Whether in league with Cedras or not, Francois plainly intends to stay at the helm. "The military controls Haiti," he asserted recently, "and it always will." As yet, there is little reason to believe that will change anytime soon...
...ability to seem both definitive and quirky at the same time. Episodes are organized around people and events that, at first glance, seem like mere sideshows: Oklahoma bank robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, for instance, or the construction of New York City's Triborough Bridge. Yet each is skillfully woven into the larger picture: the glamourization of lawbreaking as economic hard times hit; New York City as a laboratory for the new relationship between Washington and local government. The people interviewed are not, by and large, major players but ordinary folks -- former sharecroppers, union organizers, journalists, a White House butler...
Currently a delicately-woven balance of power exists between employees and employers, developed and fine-tuned through a half a century of labor laws and court decisions...