![]() Rachel Samstat ( Meryl Streep) is a food writer and columnist. Moskin explains, "In its recommendations, the government does not distinguish between heavy drinking and the occasional beer: all alcohol poses an unacceptable risk, it says." In a 2006 New York Times piece titled "The Weighty Responsibility of Drinking for Two," Julia Moskin reports that the first widely publicized scientific warnings about fetal alcohol syndrome were published in 1973 and the first Surgeon General's warnings against the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy came out in 1981. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the damaging effects of alcohol on fetal development were not well known for much of human history, by the time this film was made and set (the mid-1980s) they were common knowledge in the United States. One element of this movie that seems unthinkably taboo today (and which was quickly becoming unacceptable even during the filming time-frame) is the fact that the character of Rachel consistently participates in social drinking throughout her pregnancies in fact, upon hearing about Rachel's first pregnancy, Mark's friends Julie and Arthur open a bottle of champagne with the intent of sharing it with Rachel to celebrate the announcement. ![]()
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![]() Ogni notte, quando vado a dormire, muoio. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Sono come cinquecento milioni di sonagli.Įach night, when I go to sleep, I die. It is like listening to five hundred million little bells.Į mi piace la notte ascoltare le stelle. Nella notte passiamo la metà della vita, ed è la metà più bella davvero.Īnd I love to listen to the stars at night. Night is the other half of life, and the better half. Il chiaro di luna è una scultura la luce del sole è un dipinto. Moonlight is sculpture sunlight is painting. Solo nell’oscurità puoi vedere le stelle. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. È l’ora in cui possono sorgere sogni beati. For blissful dreams may then arise.Īmo l’ora silenziosa della notte. ![]() Più scura è la notte, più luminose sono le stelle, più profondo è il dolore, più vicino è Dio. ![]() The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God. Ho amato le stelle troppo affettuosamente per aver paura della notte. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. ![]() He’s wearing a white linen suit she’s never seen before, and he’s supposed to be dead. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death-and the truth about their marriage-in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, Refinery29, Bustle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveler, Southern Living, Lit Hub, and Vol. "There’s Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." - The Washington PostĪn August 2018 IndieNext Selection. " future cult classic." - The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() While the immediate danger of the gathering of extremist groups and international terrorists on the soil of Afghanistan and any instability caused by the continued rule of the illegitimate Taliban affects the countries in the region more than others. The United States and its allies in dealing with ambiguity in Afghanistan have time on their side, while the Taliban and neighboring countries that have planted their eyes on the seat of power in the Taliban in the short term are counting the days and months and want negotiations with the Taliban over the “comprehensive government” and its formal recognition to conclude as soon as possible. Now, it seems that the equation has been reversed. ![]() Some regional countries also rushed the United States to achieve immediate results, and with diplomatic and military support for the Taliban, they tried to make the cost of negotiations heavier for the United States. The Taliban negotiator stated that “You have the clock, and the Taliban have time.” The Taliban negotiators took advantage of the time constraints that the Americans faced in achieving immediate and usable results for electoral purposes. ![]() ![]() The American representatives warned that if they did not reach a result together promptly, the Taliban would miss important opportunities. The Taliban negotiator once responded to the American representatives’ emphasis on expediting negotiations during the talks in Doha. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s determined to grin and bear her awful marriage for the sake of giving her daughters a stable, two-parent family life. ![]() Yet she can’t find it in herself to leave him, not even when she knows his sneaking around has managed to give Annie chickenpox. I thought, No one can make me do this anymore. I actually heard the crunch, followed by his cry of pain. I waited until Irving came up behind, then I stepped out onto the porch and slammed the door behind me, right on his reaching hand. The afternoon air was the breath of freedom. I have to believe that’s why I did what I did next. ![]() It came up suddenly, memory, and took me by the throat. My body remembered this–running, fear, danger panting close behind. I ran through the house, doorframes slipping in my grasp. The two engage in knock-down, drag-out fights that sometimes have Rob running for her life:Īfter a beat of surprise Irving came after me. Still, she’s determined to give her girls the normal, All-American upbringing that was denied her, even if it means putting up with an increasingly awful Irving, whose disdain for her doesn’t emerge through cheating alone. Irving cheats on her constantly, and while Annie, the youngest and her favorite, is the sweetest child, Rob worries about strange, friendless twelve-year-old Callie. ![]() But the cracks are beginning to show in her picture-perfect life. Rob Cussen lives in a beautiful California suburb with her handsome husband Irving and two beloved daughters Callie and Annie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All of them were convicted after Misskelley confessed to helping Echols and Baldwin with the murders, which he later recanted.īaldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life without parole while Echols received the death penalty. and prosecutors argued they killed the boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Three teenage boys were arrested for the crimes - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. ![]() They were naked and hog-tied with their own shoelaces, and showed signs of blunt force trauma and mutilation, the latter of which may have been the work of wild animals, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper. The next day, their bodies were found in a nearby canal. On the evening of May 5, 1993, 8-year-olds Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore went missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working from home in the close quarters of their Florida house, she lives with one wary eye peeled on Samson, a sullen, unknowable boy who resists her every attempt to bond with him. If she’s being honest, Sammie Lucas is scared of her son. “Sublimely weird, fluently paced, brazenly funny and gayer still, and it richly deserves to find readers.” – New York Timesįrom the author of the New York Times–bestselling sensation Mostly Dead Things: a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love ![]() “A gripping read…Unabashedly queer, probing and unafraid…Exceedingly engaging.” – USA Today NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, READER'S DIGEST, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ![]() ![]() Revolutionizing long distance travel with multi-level tunnels. Making life multi-planetary by establishing a human colony on Mars. Igniting the EV revolution and transition the world to sustainable energy. Musk believes in the technological future and is determent to restore that promise to mankind, and not letting others dissuade him with the perceived impossibility of ventures like: Humankind has reached a point that it faces some unique challenges as a direct consequence of its technological evolution, some arguably existential.īillionaire Elon Musk is an engineer, inventor and businessman on a quest to save humanity from global warming and possible extinction. ![]() Elon Musk is already one of the most extraordinary, innovative and controversial entrepreneurs of the 21st century. ![]() ![]() ![]() On June 12 of that year, she married Raymond W. She transferred to the University of California in Berkeley for her senior year in 1917 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1918. ![]() She wrote for The Argonaut student newspaper and Gem of the Mountains yearbook and was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Raised in Wisconsin, her grandmother's life and storytelling abilities inspired Carol's writing at an early age.īrink started writing for her school newspapers and continued that in college she graduated from the Portland Academy in Oregon and attended the University of Idaho in Moscow for three years (1914–17). The Watkins family had moved to Idaho in 1887, three years before statehood, when Henrietta was twelve. Orphaned at age 8, Carol was raised in Moscow by her widowed maternal grandmother, Caroline Woodhouse Watkins (1853–1940), the model for Caddie Woodlawn. Alex Ryrie, 35, died from tuberculosis in 1900 and Henrietta remarried, but following her father's murder in 1901, her second marriage failed and she committed suicide in 1904 at age 29. Watkins, the first president of the state's medical association and a member of the board of regents of the new University of Idaho. ![]() ![]() Her father was an immigrant from Scotland and was the city's mayor (1895–97) and her mother was the daughter of a prominent physician, Dr. Born in Moscow, Idaho, Caroline Sybil Ryrie was the only child of Alexander and Henrietta (Watkins) Ryrie. ![]() ![]() This year’s honored guest will be publicly announced March 24th. ![]() ![]() Tickets to see this year’s honored guest will be sold separately through Mount Baker Theatre. ![]() Festival passes will be on sale Maand will include access to all films, parties, panels, and script studio.Įvery year, CASCADIA honors a different prolific woman director in the field with a special event. Festival tickets and passes will be available for purchase on CASCADIA’S website. The festival will show a variety of film types including features, documentaries, narratives, animated short films, experimental art, and student films. Films by students, emerging directors, and Indigenous women are also featured in this year’s program guide. The festival has taken the mission even further as more than half of the selected films for the past two festivals were made by women of color. Since the first festival in 2017, CASCADIA has showcased more than 185 women directors from over 45 countries. The festival will also be online May 11 - 21, 2023.ĬASCADIA is a non-profit film festival that works to combat gender bias in the film industry by offering a venue and support system for women to share their stories through the medium of film. The festival will showcase 31 short films and 6 feature films created by women filmmakers from 15 different countries. CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival will be in-person May 4-7, 2023 at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham’s downtown Arts District. ![]() |