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During the question and answer session that followed the screening, Kechiche seemed to continuously avoid an analytical approach to the film. “I did not explicitly set out to give the film a sociological label,” he said. “I primarily wanted to tell a story around the themes that were important to me—theatre, first love, the energy of youth.” Kechiche added that the specific social milieu was due to autobiographical reasons, and that any sociological or political nuances the film might deliver have been subconscious from...
...brink of being sold back into slavery. Miraculously, Jim is saved when Tom reveals that the whole escape plan was an elaborate game—Jim was already freed by his mistress on her deathbed. Some critics have criticized this ending as an evasion that allows Twain to avoid dealing with the evils of slavery, while others have defended the scene as a burlesque satire that serves as an appropriate conclusion for a picaresque novel. But disregarding this critical debate, the ending serves as the ultimate example of Twain’s tendency to sacrifice substance for satire. The deeper...
...deficit spending to expand unemployment benefits. And how about House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA), who opposed the health-care bill? When a bullet was fired into his office window, Cantor reported it to the police—not the media—to avoid inciting violence...
...changing that policy in 2010. Incredibly, the term Arab doesn't even appear on the census form, though other Asian ethnicities, like Indian, are listed as races. (Ironically, part of the problem is that Arab immigrants a century ago petitioned the Federal Government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination. Today, Arab-American leaders realize how much that move has cost their community in terms of federal aid and legal clout...
...Washington, many Republican leaders are now waffling and wavering over their previous aggressively negative stance on the health care bill, seeing peril in opposing the measure's more popular provisions. They are searching for a more nuanced and modulated message that will allow them to avoid the damning Party of No label, while still making their principles clear. But Sarah Palin doesn't really do nuance or modulation. Defiance is more her style, and this past weekend she used her folksy brand of full-throated opposition to dominate American politics yet again with appearances in Arizona and Nevada. The lady...