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...expect anyone from Dawson's Creek to be moonlighting in Girlfight, the latest coming-of-age teenage tale, starring newcomer Michelle Rodriguez. Wearing army fatigues and sweats instead of the requisite cleavage bearing tank top, Rodriguez delivers a mesmerizing and fiery performance, not to mention a mean left-hook. As Diana, a troubled teen from Red Hook, a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, Rodriguez finds her salvation in the predominantly male world of amateur boxing. Capitalizing on this world of precise grace and raw aggression, Director Karyn Kusama throws sexual stereotypes and cinematic genres into the ring, creating a match...
...most part Kusama avoids many of the tired conventions of the genres this film invokes. Unlike, say, She's All That, Diana's transformation from an offensive and frightening bitch into a beautiful and self-assured woman does not involve suddenly putting on lipstick and high heels. Instead, the way she manipulates her dark, piercing eyes, which are emphasized throughout the film, does the trick. And although I refuse to buy that Diana and her imposing boyfriend would be boxing in the same weight class, Diana's fight scenes with him and others thankfully skip the gratuitous melodrama plaguing many...
...micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade was a result of African strength. Europeans bought slaves, they did not obtain them through European-led raids...
...There's one exception: Bush did nicely on the character issue, not seeming the least bit Starr-like. His tone of disappointment seemed like the most effective way to go. Gore's response felt too canned, as if he were prepared for Bush to launch a screed instead of a gentle rebuke. Gore coulda taken some good digs at Bush's Texas record but he riffed on campaign finance instead...
...famously sharp-fanged Gore that bared his teeth the most, having apparently decided beforehand on Bush's big weak spot: his tax cut and how much of the surplus Bush was handing to "the wealthiest one percent." (About $600 billion that Gore wants to spread around instead, to Medicare, education, paying down the debt. Wealthiest one percent. Medicare, education, paying down the debt. Repeat as necessary, and Gore did.) SEE IT: slow modem | fast modem | broadband...