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...Unfortunately in Heuet's case, except for the most basic of emotions (happy, sad, surprised) his two-dots-and-two-squiggles faces aren't up to the task of expressing the subtleties of emotion present in a book based entirely on subtitles of emotion. Consequently, he relies on large chunks of text to supply the emotion. One page of eleven panels includes seven with all text...
...Xhaferi, too, because then the guys currently fighting in the hills would take over the political leadership of Macedonia's Albanians. So it was in the mutual interest of Xhaferi and the parties representing the Slav majority to reach a compromise. It's in everyone's interests, except the guerrillas...
...experience of Vietnam is shaped by what we let ourselves say. Memory plays tricks--and to ward off horror, we make our memories play tricks. Except for long ago, when he told his mother, his first wife and a minister, Kerrey never brought up the botched mission at Thanh Phong. And then, on April 18 of this year, at a small speech to ROTC candidates at Virginia Military Institute, toward the end of his discourse about moral justifications of war, Kerrey spoke about the night in 1969 when he led six Navy SEALs on an operation to take...
...surely deserves the attention of discerning movie watchers. The Hire, an automaton hero at the wheel of his automotive avenger, is a solid yet supple arche- type--a creature out of existentialist literature. He is what he drives. And he always wins. Except when he doesn't want...
...Fabritius, worked for a time in Delft until he had the spectacularly awful luck to be blown to pieces in the accidental explosion of the town's gunpowder magazine. And then there were minor artists of merely local interest, who are dutifully represented in the show but whom nobody except a specialist would cross Fifth Avenue...