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...arms spread wide, arcing as they stretched to their tips. He turned his head and motioned me in.My left knee gave out but he stayed put.“You got it?”“Yes.”I stumbled as I snuck beneath his arm. Then I was using the hymnal to smooth my dress out. He was next to me, watching me, serious. “Miss Winnie?” The doors drifted shut behind us.“Yes, let’s go.”I’d really...
...wants to parade the range of its 3-D effects. It's quite a show, from the intergalactic rock slide that starts things off to the climactic destruction of the Golden Gate bridge. That's a tribute to a similar scene in Ray Harryhausen's 1955 It Came from Beneath the Sea - and possibly a sly death-wish joke aimed at the Pixar artists who drive across the bridge to work every...
...often the case with Obama, his macro message was buffeted by hard-nosed political tactics just beneath the surface. He made the rather remarkable claim, for instance, that his budget proposal was "inseparable from this recovery," apparently tying his own long-range policy goals on education, energy and health care to the end of the current recession. He also took some jabs at his Republican critics, who have mostly been marginalized in recent weeks by a lack of substantive arguments. "The critics tend to criticize, but they don't offer an alternative budget," he said, sounding exasperated...
...biggest issue is the fight for the oil beneath Kirkuk, to the southwest, but even in Mosul, a Kurdish Commander in the Iraqi army expressed deep concerns. "Tomorrow," Col. Hazar, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion told me, "if [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki transferred an Arab battalion up here, then we could not trust these people because they would use violence against us." (See a video on Iraq, six years after the U.S. invasion...
...like Jonathan Swift—specifically in his satire “The Lady’s Dressing Room”—Boyle seems determined to expose the raw humanity behind ideals of free love and art—the age and decay of the flesh hidden beneath elaborate outfits and artfully applied rouge. Or perhaps Boyle merely wishes to debunk the notion that people in the early to mid 1900s did not sweat—they glistened...