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...Pan’s Labyrinth” all cinematic elements work together so seamlessly that the actors and the effects eventually merge. The dramatic finesse of the ensemble cast build upon del Toro’s vision, although no one person outshines it. Through diverse aesthetic orchestration—adulthood and childhood, violence and peace, reality and fantasy—del Toro has achieved the unheard-of: a film that satisfies viewers’ various tastes without compromising artistic vision. —Staff writer Mollie K. Wright can be reached at mkwright@fas.harvard.edu...
...proposals. Meanwhile, the Arab states responded thunderously with their famous ''three noes'' -- no recognition of Israel, no negotiation, no peace. Twenty-one years later, Israel still holds the territories, but no longer so reluctantly. Twenty-one years is long enough to allow a generation of Palestinians to grow to adulthood knowing only, and hating, the occupation. But in a land so old, 21 years is merely an instant. Civilizations are piled on top of one another (Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Hellenistic, Maccabean, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, crusader, Mameluke, Ottoman, on and on), all the laminations that conquerors have left...
...George Raft, sometimes it was George Burns. "I heard it twisted around so many ways," he says. "It could have been Rudolph Valentino." Nonetheless, the poignant sweetness of her recollections and the faintly acrid aftertaste of his own uneasy detachment flavored Simon's adolescence. As he rose during adulthood from deprivation to celebrity, creating hit TV shows, then dozens of gag-laden Broadway shows and jauntily comic movies, he thought from time to time of writing candidly about his mother and even about that specific situation, with its blend of childish veneration and Oedipal yearning. But such memories seemed...
...DECADES, THE PREVAILING DOGMA IN neuroscience was that the adult human brain is essentially immutable, hardwired, fixed in form and function, so that by the time we reach adulthood we are pretty much stuck with what we have. Yes, it can create (and lose) synapses, the connections between neurons that encode memories and learning. And it can suffer injury and degeneration. But this view held that if genes and development dictate that one cluster of neurons will process signals from the eye and another cluster will move the fingers of the right hand, then they'll do that and nothing...
...like exercise or stimulating leisure and social activity - help the brain continue normal functions even as it decays physically. Just don't expect great things from your French refresher course. The study, appearing in the February issue of Neuropsychologia, defines bilingual as "regularly using at least two languages" throughout adulthood - and there's no evidence that flipping through phrase books will help. Quel dommage...