Word: actualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that the earth has precessed and the direction of the pole points has changed significantly means that the constellations actually are not in the same places on the same days as they were. Or rather the sun is not in the same place on the same day as it was 400 years ago. What that means is: astrologists aren't even talking about where the planets actually are. They're talking about where they are in this conventional picture of astrology, and where the sun and moon and the other planets are. They don't use the actual positions...
...cliche on the books. The characters are unique and quirky, the wit is dry, and the double entendre is in constant employment. Also, all of the components of traditional action thrillers are present; gunfights, international intrigue, colorful bad guys, and massive quantities of sexual tension. (There's been no actual sex yet, but hey, it's a new year and we've got our fingers crossed...
...plate. "If we can muster the will and create the technology to put a man on the moon in a decade," he declared in his poverty speech last week, "then surely...we can eliminate child poverty as we know it." Bradley at times seems less proud of his actual proposals than his sheer willingness to make them: "I believe we have the methods," he said. "The question is, Do we have the will? That...is the real issue...
Every now and then a movie appears on the horizon, sending streaks of a false dawn through the sky long before the actual appearance of the film; Princess Mononoke is that sort of movie. It was the highest grossing film in Japan when it was released in 1997 (to be replaced, tragically, by Titanic, and bootleg copies have been circulating though North America for years.) The big screen debut in America has been completely unlike that of any other foreign animated film; touting the voices of stars like Gilian Anderson, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Billy...
...collection of Boston's late madcap socialite, Isabella Stuart Gardner. Thanks to lax conservation regulations and import laws, Gardner was able to amass a rather impressive, if jumbled, collection of paintings, decorative arts, and artifacts from around the world. Only here can one find opulent Byzantine windows (taken from actual Venetian palazzos), Boticelli paintings, and second century Roman bathhouse mosaics all melded into a unified whole. Gardner stipulated in her will that the collection remain exactly as it was originally curated; however, there are occasional rotating exhibitions of contemporary artwork. Currently on display: "Threads of Dissent" The museum also offers...