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...Reygadas dramatizes this with small, telling gestures in long-take shots of the countryside, using the wide screen to place the land's natural beauty against the internal conflicts of the three main participants. The director also constructs elaborate pairs of sequences, one toward the beginning of Silent Light, the other toward the end. The opening dawn is the prelude to the closing dusk (which consumes the film's last five minutes); a church service precedes a wake; a passionate kiss of love is followed by the restorative kiss of life...
...OPEC. The American people have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they can and will get by with less gas if there is a compelling reason in the form of a higher price at the pump. The enormous, unstated side benefit of Kinsley's proposal is a huge step toward energy independence. Who did not enjoy seeing the OPEC ministers being forced to reduce production because of reduced demand in the U.S. and worldwide? I wonder if our elected representatives will have the courage to pursue Kinsley's idea. Richard Parins, Sarasota...
...first question for Kenzer's dead friends was about the recession. While many economists are predicting recovery at the end of 2010, the dead people were pointing her toward a far more realistic 2012. Kenzer sees a lot of companies going bankrupt this year. "I get a purple color and the letter a," she said. I figured that was Yahoo!, but she said no. "They're doing all kinds of things behind closed doors to not die." Some of those things, I predict, are opening lots and lots of credit-card accounts. When I asked if TIME magazine would have...
...Toward the end of the general-election campaign, Obama was asked repeatedly what initiatives he would cut given the increasingly bleak economic reality. His responses then were suitably vague, and it turns out the answer appears to be: very few. Instead, most of those programs (and their price tags) are being added to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, all in the name of fixing the economy...
...Until recently there has been relatively little objection to all this from Republicans. Obama has cannily trumpeted the fact that 40% of his proposed $775 billion bill, or $310 billion, would go toward tax cuts. The problem is that $775 billion represents the cost over just two years; after that, voting to reinstate taxes - or to cut back on popular programs like health care, help for the unemployed and aid to students - may well be difficult. Paying for all these programs down the road will be complicated further if Democrats try to reimpose, as they have sworn...