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...With a choice of either chicken or steak, I was in heaven. However, the steak turned out to be a meatloaf with criss-crossing grill marks on it to make it look like a steak. Unfortunately for United, this seasoned veteran of airplane food was not fooled; I demanded a real steak, and asked the captain to turn the plane around just like in that Colombian coffee commercial. For some reason, they thought that was funny...
Some critics fret that all this criss-crossing will damage society's essential "American" core. By this they usually mean a confluence of attitudes, values and assumptions that drive Americans' centuries-old quest for a better life. What they fail to acknowledge is that legal, educational and economic changes continuously alter the priorities within that same set of social variables. A few generations back, religion, race and custom superseded all other considerations. When Kathleen Hobson and Atul Gawande, both 27, married last year, however, they based their vision of a shared future on a different set of common values...
...were exiled by Castro in 1980. Although this time she didn't write the screenplay, the film promises to explore the familiar subject of people in cultural limbo, to find the universal in the specific--to be her "Miami Masala." There is no end in sight to Nair's criss-crossing the boundaries of identity. The world holds a limitless supply of stories on the fringes of Hollywood formulas, stories that satisfy Nair's outsider sensibility and popular focus...
...water as life source. But Bravo's provocative title refers to a contemporary socio-economic reality which the commentary ignores. Similarly, the series of female nudes titled "Xipe" are explained solely in reference to the ancient "flayed goddess" of the same name. Yet the headless images of bodies criss-crossed with jagged shadows and leaves bear a resemblence to Man Ray's and other Surrealists' work with their slicing of the female figure. The oddly ahistorical commentary aligns Bravo only with the past, drawing no connection between his art and the ideas of his contemporaries...
...this trick in the show ... sort of a sideways criss-cross thing ..," Victor trails off. Frustrated, he gets up and demonstrates what he means: starting with his feet in first position, he weaves them back and forth and somehow propels himself sideways through a series of traffic cones. The bright orange beacons flash in and out of view rapidly as his legs work through them, churning like an egg inch as he threads down the line. The move speaks for itself...