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  • "Ritwik Ghatak's films are deeply haunted by the specter of the Partition of Bengal in 1947, and this sense of dislocation and self-inflicted human tragedy created by artificially imposed social division casts a pervasive sentiment of despair, instability, and perpetual exile through all the rended families and uprooted ancestral communities of Subarnarekha," writes acquarello.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/19. 2007

  • I'm not giving advice on how to transform a rended past into a mended future, though that is possible.

    Not All Bridges Can Be Burned 2008

  • “The heavens are being rended,” he said, his rheumy eyes glittering.

    The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008

  • Fox's original release of Gang was faulted for having a transfer that rended all the colors too dull, turning the bananas in "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" into an almost greyish version of yellow.

    You hear a tropical drum, you drink some tropical rum, you're in a tropical spot and yet you really are not Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • “The heavens are being rended,” he said, his rheumy eyes glittering.

    The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008

  • In commiseration, and then were their hearts rended with sweet anguish

    Kay Boyle greenintegerblog 2008

  • Fox's original release of Gang was faulted for having a transfer that rended all the colors too dull, turning the bananas in "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat" into an almost greyish version of yellow.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • And the women their heart of amber and the dance of the rended souls.

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • “The heavens are being rended,” he said, his rheumy eyes glittering.

    The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008

  • It also marks a decisicve break with the encraoching lie of cultural relativism that has rended this country incapable of any moral judgement .

    Forced Marriage Highlighted at Tory Women's Meeting 2007

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