Word: bald
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...Toymaker, the brainy bad guy bent on ruling the cyberworld. He holds conferences with three advisers--a steely general, a bald scientist and a blissed-out hippie--all played by the one actor. Sylvester Stallone is simply the guest villain of Robert Rodriguez's 3-D video game, but when the veteran star is onscreen, this Spy Kids plays like Sly Kids...
Would he have wound up looking like this anyway? If Ralph Archbold hadn't been talked into playing Ben Franklin in a local summer production in Dearborn, Mich., when he was a 31-year-old professional photographer who looked nothing like the man, would his head have gone bald in just this way? Would he have gained this much weight, needed bifocals and developed a bad hip that required a cane? Is it possible that a person can so identify with someone else that he morphs into his likeness...
...Grains of Rice, in which a rooster and a hen peck away at 922 grains of rice while male and female voices tally his and her scores. Best of the lot is Yang Fudong's 13-minute Backyard, Hey, Sun is Rising, following the irresistibly silly antics of four bald men brandishing sabers as they parade through city streets and homes. Yang seems inspired by Mack Sennett, Monty Python and the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. There are relatively few paintings or drawings on show. Liu Xiaodong paints scenes of daily life with thick, vigorous brush strokes...
...made fun of bald men passing on the street: “It’s cheaper to buy a hat than Rogaine,” he told them...
...just posturing to get Israel a better deal in the end. But if he holds to the line that Israel will not move on settlements until the last phase of negotiations, his offer of “painful concessions” will be revealed as little more than a bald attempt to score P.R. points with the U.S. while ensuring that those concessions will never actually need to be made...