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...heard the whap-whapping of blades and saw a dark green chopper struggling up to them. When it landed, the able-bodied loaded first Makalu Gao, then Weathers aboard, and the pilot flew off, dropping gratefully down to lower altitudes where there was thicker air for his blades to bite. With the helicopter gone, the most grievously injured climbers were at last on their way to safety. Back on Everest, the ambulatory ones were left to make their own way down--and the fallen ones were left to remain forever where they...
...running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the theme of chocolate (the next show is planned along the theme of water). The results are a toothsome twist on product design and consumer desire. The artist HIMAA has made a chocolate key with a bite mark that turns the lock; the design team of Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka Nakamura, professionally known as VINTA, has created a lamp that resembles liquid chocolate. It all appears delightfully surreal, but the serious message to savor, as far as these displays are concerned, is design's ability to render commonplace...
...Rueda, who lost nearly 20 lbs. during the shoot, gives her all to portraying Laura, and some may think it's too much; her intensity practically snaps at the camera as if to bite it off. But this strong, handsome woman (seen with Javier Bardem in the Oscar-nominated The Sea Inside three years back) has the will and daring to turn the audience into believers...
...musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...heard, I wouldn't have believed. This one guy told me he walked into a house one day and saw these three girls: one killed, one in the process of being raped, one struggling--there was this militiaman, he had his hand around this girl's finger, trying to bite her ring...