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...film begins in media res, with legendary photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) donning a coat of hair that makes her look like some sort of vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving and supportive husband, Allan (Ty Burrell). By the end of the film, we’ve been treated to her transformation by way of midgets, an armless maid, and, most of all, a mysterious wholly-covered-with-hair lover-to-be named Lionel (Robert Downey Jr.), who seems ripped from the pages...
...Knife in the Water,” a three-person drama about a couple who, out of guilt, invite a hitchhiker who they’ve almost run over out for a day of boating. The anxiety explored in this film is of the awkward sexual variety, as the husband competes to prove his superior virility through a series of contrived tests of masculinity.What differentiates “High and Low” and “Knife in the Water” from modern attempts to wrestle with the issues they discuss (besides the language gap and the prevalence...
...these countries, but few seek it also because of the social stigma and discrimination. Nor have Arab countries adopted laws to protect the civil rights of HIV-AIDS sufferers. Some statistics suggest that 4 out of 5 women HIV sufferers in the Arab World were infected by their husbands. And when the husband dies of the disease, his family will often disown the woman for fear she may be contagious. It is rare for Arab women to ask their husbands to get tested prior to marriage or to wear a condom during...
Although Bea FitzGerald, 66, first heard the call as a young woman, she pushed it aside to raise her seven children. After her husband left in 1968, she put herself through school and supported her family as a registered nurse. Once her children were grown, the call grew louder. She obtained an annulment, joined the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, based in Louisville, Ky., and, at 51, became one of the growing number of so-called Sister Moms. While widowed or divorced women with grown children have long entered religious life, Sister Moms in the U.S. are now establishing...
...murder in Baghdad live in a single 10-bunk cell in Khadamiyah Women's Prison in the northern part of town near the Tigris River. There waits Zayneb, a brown-haired woman in her late 20s wearing a black head scarf, convicted in September of conspiring with her husband to murder three relatives. The judge gave her three death sentences, one for each relative who was murdered. She says she didn't have anything to do with their deaths. She has only one chance to appeal the ruling before she faces the noose. The reality of her predicament sinks...