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...with her 2001 hit Laganese, is just one indication of the lengths to which she'll go for a story. While researching her book on Serbian society, With Their Backs to the World (2000), she paid a visit to singer Rambo Amadeus, whose musical style she describes as "acid-horror-funk." Amadeus balked at being included in the book - he just didn't give interviews. But a Norwegian folk song he heard her singing caught his ear. "Sing your fisherman song for my CD and I'll be in your book," he bargained. Seierstad sang for her interviews and forgot...
Nearly two years after the horror of 9/11, many found it downright bracing to pull together in an emergency that was just an accident. If 9/11 taught us how to survive while grieving, the blackout taught us how to survive without grumbling--or without too much of it at least. Should you find yourself in a blackout--or want to be prepared for crises that might leave you stranded without services--here are 10 rules for getting by when lights go out, stores shut down, and banks are closed...
...Persepolis conveys both the horror of the regime and the comic absurdity of living under it. In one panel young Marjane's mother warns her, "If anybody asks what you do during the day, say you pray." In the next panel, Marjane and her friends compete to see who prays the most. "Five times," says one boy. "Eleven," fibs Marjane. The kids also boast about whose family has suffered most. Those whose parents have the grimmest prison tales gain their friends' admiration; those with the most relatives killed in the Iran-Iraq war get better marks at school. Satrapi...
...while reveling in the dramatically unedifying face-off of absolute innocence and absolute malice. Magdalene would have been a better film--at least, it could have been a good one--if it had shown the nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it too much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil...
...reflects off a flooded shellhole in which a uniform and helmet float, surrounded by rusty fronds of barbed wire, concrete blocks and curls of corrugated iron. The many limbless trees have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation of horror into almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons...