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No Country for Old Men.(Movie review)
The Christian Century
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January 15, 2008|
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No Country for Old Men. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones.
Joel and Ethan Coen accomplish what Cormac McCarthy set out to do in his bombastic 2005 novel No Country for Old Men. The movie by the same name is a portrait of the moral void of post-Vietnam America (it's set in 1980). The title, which implies a nostalgia for vanished old-world values, is taken from Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium."
That void is embodied in a psychopathic contract killer named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who treks across ...
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Sitar hits the high notes
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Murallitharan M. New Straits Times 09-14-2001 Sitar hits the high notes Byline: Murallitharan...Section: Spot On Memo: (STF) - The sitar has come a long way from its humble beginnings...HINDUSTANI music is perhaps best defined by the sitar. Renowned Indian performer Ravi Shankar...
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Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...explanations of the origin of the sitar - that it was "invented" in...medieval Indian tanbur as the sitar's prototype, giving the honor...depicting musicians playing sitars that are much smaller than the modern sitar, and which have narrower necks...
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Eye on the sitar
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Straits Times 09-11-2005 Eye on the sitar Byline: Aref Omar Edition: New Sunday Times The versatility and unique sound of the sitar captured the heart and soul of Kumar Karthigesu. AREF OMAR finds out why. THE sitar caught the attention of contemporary music...
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Sitar Company Brokers Named New Jersey's "2008 All-Star Commercial Real Estate Brokers".
Business Wire
; ISELIN, N.J. -- Sitar Company, a leading New Jersey commercial real estate firm, today announced that Joseph Nitti, Douglas J. Sitar and William Sitar III have been named "2008 All-Star Commercial Real Estate...
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Pride of place for gran's sitar.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
; ...grandmother, Savitree Ramsaran Sookan, play the sitar. "I remember my grandmother playing the...grandmother, who died in 2001, bought a sitar in Jaipur in 1975 on her first trip to India. "A keen sitar player, she was keen to buy one. She did...
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Sitar Arts Center Awarded 2009 Coming Up Taller Award by President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week
; Sitar Arts Center, a multi-disciplinary arts...Arts and the Humanities, distinguishing Sitar as one of the premier afterschool arts and...country. First Lady Michelle Obama presented Sitar with the prestigious award during a special...
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Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th Centuries...music of India, in general, and of the sitar, in particular, was introduced to millions...listening to the metallic strains of the sitar, performed almost invariably by Pandit Ravi...
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DEEP DISH: Reawakening Sitar
Newspaper article from: New Haven Register
; ...probably expecting me to announce that Sitar, our city's newest Indian eatery...and in fact it was a recent dinner at Sitar that unlocked the flood of memories that I just spilled in your lap. Sitar opened two months ago on Grove Street...
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The sitar man
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Murallitharan M New Straits Times 05-12-2001 The sitar man Byline: Murallitharan M Edition: 2...has done more than anyone else to promote the sitar in Malaysia, writes Murallitharan M. THE sitar, perhaps the only instrument that embodies...
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BATISH BRINGS BACK THE SITAR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; The sitar, an Indian instrument popularized by Ravi...India today, you can count the number of sitar players on your fingertips," says Ashwin Batish. "Young kids don't want to play the sitar anymore. It's too difficult. They want...
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