Word: wildness
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...drug ring-related death of her husband in Turin, Italy. After an unsuccessful attempt to bomb the drug dealer’s office, she instead kills four innocent people, is arrested—go figure—and eventually falls in love with an officer who believes her wild story (Giovanni Ribisi). No doubt the chameleon-like Blanchett can easily slip into this disturbed role, but whether Tykwer can reconcile his almost dementedly fast-paced visual style with an apparently weepy melodramatic plot remains to be seen...
...condemnation of the circumcised, but theologians at the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, shaken by the Holocaust, reread Paul's letters. They noted that at one point Paul calls the Covenant between God and the Jews irrevocable and that in one passage he compares Christians to a wild olive branch grafted onto the tree of Judaism. "If the Covenant between God and the children of Abraham dies," says Fisher, "the branch withers with the roots. Christians would be orphans." The resulting Vatican II document rolled back centuries of anti-Judaism and began a rehabilitation of the notion of Abraham...
...Released in the UK and throughout Asia this summer, The Good Women of China has been likened in early reviews to Jung Chang's 1991 bestseller Wild Swans. But while Chang's engaging book?covering how three generations of women in her family were affected by China's changing political climate?held a crisp, clear vision, Xue's far broader approach works against it. There's no denying The Good Women of China is an important book, or even that it is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th century Chinese society. At the same time, due to a disjointed...
...grown disillusioned with the ways of God as he encountered them in the texts and lectures of his masters. Spiritually, Rumi was hungry for something more than what conventional studies could offer him?something that came to him in 1244, in the form of an encounter with a ragged, wild-eyed mystic named Shams of Tabriz. Rumi and Shams, legend has it, immediately recognized each other as brothers on a spiritual plane. Most Muslims vigorously deny that the relationship had a homosexual component, but whatever its exact nature, it initiated an awakening that would ultimately transform the young Persian intellectual...
With Fitzpatrick taking the snaps, the Crimson took on a new personality. Though Murphy insists that “Fitzy” isn’t a running quarterback, Fitzpatrick ran wild through the porous Bear line...