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Principle drafted in a vacuum are of little value, The lofty concept of rejecting "aggression and ethnic cleansing" sounds very appealing. The problem is, the principle ignores the price...
Finding taboos in Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters...
...single last year. There may not be another record this good that rocks this hard for a while--one reason for which might be that everyone more talented or more experienced than aMINIATURE has given up on big guitar attacks, and prefers to make mulit-genre, multi-weird-instrument concept albums, like this next...
...very) rocking individual songs, Teen Beat 96 Exploder is that rarity of rarities, an album that you'll have to listen to AS an album. There are superb, symphonic pop songs--we'll get to them shortly, don't worry--but they fade, at first, before the brightly ridiculous concept of Exploder as a whole--it's got an intro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Go!"), an outro ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder Bye Bye"-- the same minute-long set of pounded-out chords as the intro, I think) and a break in the middle ("Eggs Teen Beat 96 Exploder...
...said that while all documentaries rely on "questioning what's objective,....academically, documentaries have been expected to render an objective accounting of reality in some way." Although he doesn't think there is "as much experimentation in nonfiction films as there should be," McElwee believes that this "objective" concept of the documentary is changing. "People are branching out while still relying upon an experience in reality intersected with the camera." "First," he says there was the "movement of cinema verite with people like [Harvard professors] Robert Gardner and Alfred Guzetti." Gardner has explored the cultures of Africa and India while...