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...Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...
...more hesitant recital of Cianci still possessed the power of Gray’s words, a testament to Gray’s power as a writer. And while each delivered lines marked by his own cadence (Cianci, for example, often stopped and looked pointedly at the audience to elicit laughter), it was clear that they represented one voice.In many ways, the original design of Gray’s performances was preserved. The set consisted of three black platforms, some dark simple furniture on which the actors perched, and a simple backdrop that changed color as the monologues changed in tone...
...tragic form, Joon is left alone to care for his ailing mother, but she soon dies while Yong-soo is in China. Joon departs to find his father, not knowing that Yong-soo has already been relocated to South Korea by a relief organization. Certain scenes of the movie elicit real emotion—horror, disgust, pity—but these are few and far between. One scene in which Joon excitedly goes to feed his pet dog the leftover bones from an exceptionally good meal, only to discover that his father has just served the dog for dinner particularly...
...real estate. "Hong Kong is a free port ... even Falun Gong practitioners can buy a property there," said the unnamed official. The connection between a marginalized religious sect and a tyrant in power for three decades may be tenuous, but, for Zimbabweans, half of whom face malnutrition, it must elicit the most cynical, if fleeting, of smiles...
Maybe the Muslim world is, after all, a mystery to the West. Maybe the two cultures have simply diverged one step too far from each other—somehow neither can break the encryption just beneath the surface of the mutual chatter that seems to elicit so much wrath and illuminate as little common ground. Maybe the only hope that the people of the West can understand the subtlety and beauty of the Islamic culture comes in the form of a docu-drama made up to look like an historical epic—one whose patronizing tone is only outpaced...