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...grandeur of Yuen Wo-ping's action scenes in Crouching Tiger, but they have a stateliness that suits the gravity of the plot. These are working warriors with a deadly goal. Several of them are also artists and calligraphers. They believe that every stroke of the pen or the blade must be justified. They don't fight to dazzle; they fight to kill...
...presented alongside a new exhibition of the artist's work at Verona's Palazzo Forti. We see the elegantly-dressed Fontana approaching a solid white canvas, a Stanley utility knife gripped tightly in his right hand. In successive shots, we see him with his arm raised and the blade about to pierce the center of the pristine surface; in a whirlwind of motion finishing off the single top-to-bottom slash of the canvas with his knife; and finally, standing by the completed work - a 1.5-m-by-1.5-m white canvas with an enormous gash in it - looking...
...they do with growing frequency, accuracy and brazenness. These days American forward bases are coming under rocket or mortar fire three times a week on average. Apache pilots sometimes see angry red arcing lines of tracer bullets rising toward their choppers from unseen gunners hidden in Afghanistan's saw-blade ridges. Roads frequented by special forces are often mined with remote-controlled explosives, a new tactic al-Qaeda fighters picked up from their Chechen comrades fighting the Russians. With phantom enemy fighters stepping up attacks and U.S. forces making little headway against them, General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint...
...well" means something different for Canongate than it does for any other house. Byng reedited the early chapters of Pi with Martel, and for Snowblind, a book by Robert Sabbag about drug smuggling, he produced a limited edition, complete with a Damien Hirst drug kit - mirror, razor blade and $100 bill. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a literary evening, Byng talked his way into an introduction to the Queen and presented her with a volume, drug kit and all. "I asked her if it could be included in the Royal Collection," Byng recalls. "She takes out the $100 bill...
VIEW FINDER The breathtaking views from the 88-story Jinmao Tower encompass the historic river-front Bund with its 1920 buildings and Pudong's Blade Runner surrealism. Enjoy a drink at Cloud 9, the bar at the Shanghai Grand Hyatt atop the Jinmao. Jinmao Da-sha, 2 Shiji Avenue, Pudong...