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...When the shooting stopped around 4 p.m., six protesters were dead and 17 injured. The women and children were led away, and the men?some 1,300 in all?ordered to strip off their shirts. Then they were handcuffed behind their backs and told to lie flat on the ground. Thai TV footage of the event shows soldiers kicking and beating the men. Several of the women told TIME that the men were forced to lie on the ground for more than an hour. No one offered them water. "It's [the Muslim fasting month of] Ramadan," says Vuttichai. "They...
...best defense of French may be a strong offense. Rather than using laws and quotas to carve out a safe space for French, why not use the language to thrill the world? Crowd-pleasing French films like the 2001 smash hit Amélie fight American cultural hegemony. (Amélie star Audrey Tautou and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet are back with a World War I film, A Very Long Engagement.) The foundation of internationally successful writers like Amélie Nothomb and Bernard-Henri Lévy is, of course, their command of French. Rapper MC Solaar makes crafty...
...initially enters this arrangement reluctantly—she is distrusting of Joza and she isn’t accustomed to his extremely rural lifestyle—she gradually falls in love with him and begins to make Zelary her home, rather than just a place for her to lie low until the Nazis forget about her. Actors Geislerova and Cserhalmi artfully and skillfully depict their characters’ relationship as it gradually progresses from the haltingly formal to the faintly resentful to, well, a fairly strong argument in favor of arranged marriages...
...Washington Ellis gives us is not the customary figure operating serenely above the fray but a man constantly seeking to govern his own passions. Ironically, telling Washington's story truthfully requires Ellis to occasionally cast doubt on the great man's honesty. Washington could lie when he needed to--for instance, by misrepresenting for posterity his role in the disastrous engagement at Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War. And throughout his career, he feigned a lack of ambition as cover for a relentless impulse to move upward in the world...
...Critics savaged it ("A shameless piece of tabloid gossip," wrote Robert Brustein in the New Republic), particularly its scorching portrayal of the sexy, unstable singer so clearly modeled after Monroe. A Broadway revival earlier this year was almost equally reviled. You'd think Miller would let sleeping sex symbols lie. But now, 40 years later, he has revisited his marriage in yet another play, Finishing the Picture, an account of the making of The Misfits, the 1961 movie Miller wrote for his wife, which turned out to be Monroe's and co-star Clark Gable's last film...