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Translation is a mean of interlingual communication. The English-Russian translator (iterpreter) enables an exchange of information between speakers of English and Russian by producing in Russian a text which has an identical communicative value with the English text. But still the translated into Russian text is not totally identical with the English text as to its form originality content due to the limitations imposed by the formal and semantic differences between the English language and Russian translation. (more…)

A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband’s journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.

“Romance & Cigarettes” is a flawed but endearing film. Its stylized dialogs — often stitched together from song lyrics, lines from films and, I think, even a snatch of Beckett’s Endgame — its characters bursting into lip-synched song and dance, its strange, disjointed scenes and its total lack of romance will doubtless annoy a lot of people hoping for something somewhat more straightforward and conventional. Personally, I was hoping for something that might address the issues of love, romance and relationships which the film, instead, prodded gently before dancing and singing around them. I would also have liked to have seen more of Mary Louise Parker, who I thought was cruelly underused. And…Eddie Izzard? And yet…and yet…I really liked this film. It had an inventiveness and a quirky charm, a surreal, loopy approach to narrative and dialog, was beautifully filmed and — within limitations of the form — wonderfully acted. Romance and cheap cigarettes… Particular kudos to Kate Winslet, unrecognizable and thoroughly dislikable, who nonetheless “sings” one of the more heart-stopping numbers, Ute Lemper’s version of Cave & Piseks “Little Water Song”, while underwater.

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Stabler and Beck track down a serial rapist who repeatedly attacks his victims based on their ovulation cycles so that he can impregnate them. When an assailant rapes his victim twice, Detectives Stabler and Beck link the case to victims of multiple rapes. Based on the timeline of those subsequent attacks, Dr. George Huang suspects the rapist has one disturbing motive for these crimes. Tensions flare between the detectives as they make a difficult decision to help bring in the dangerous perp. (more…)