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...WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT/ DEATH HAD undone so many ." wrote Dante of his descent into the inferno. What was most remarkable, in the aftermath of Oklahoma's sorrow, was that the people were not undone; the sturdy cliches about Midwestern fortitude came to life as an entire city refused to buckle in grief. "We hate and despise the people who did it," said Senior District Judge Fred Daugherty, who survived the blast in his courthouse office next door to the federal building. "But we're a strong and simple folk. We'll rebuild and roll with this thing...
...Most of our members are Afro-American or of African descent, but people in Black CAST come from diverse [performing] backgrounds: Some have competed nationally in speech or drama, some haven't ever acted before." McCants says...
...total of 15 members. Among them are a couple of grad students, two alums, one members of the community, but we're primarily undergraduates," he says. "What I think is neat is that not everyone in the group is of Mexican descent. We've got a girl from Utah whose parents are both English...
...series of atonal compositions which further add to the work's subliminal spell. While one scene mixes chromatic pitches with blobs of piano notes, another combines the shriveled sound of a rewinding tape recorder with the cacophony of urban traffic. Bellowing horns mark the beginning of Ward's descent into the afterlife. Ward's grandfather drags him around the room suffocating him with a trumpet. Though Ward manages to blow, the sound is like that of a dying animal. For the most part, however, these atonal compositions lurk beneath the viewer's attention...
Merchant expressed the irony of his 33-yearpartnership with Ivory and screenwriter RuthPrawer Jhabvala. Merchant is an Indian Muslim,Ivory is an American of Irish origin and Jhabwalais a Jew of Polish descent. The three havecombined to produce "the quintessential Britishfilms," he said...