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...Ponyo has interspecies powers and a low immunity system. Sosuke has cut his finger breaking the jar; she heals it with her touch, and in briefly tasting his blood, she starts to become human. She sprouts rudimentary hands and feet; for an instant she looks like a child's drawing of a chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi...
...viewer's fun, such as it is, comes from guessing where the movie is headed and why it's going there. The ultimate question, from this admirer of virtually all the brothers' work, from the early Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing to their previous Clooney collaborations O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty, is a plaintive "What the heck kind of film is this...
...Reprogramming blood or skin cells back to a pluripotent state before coaxing them into the final form takes weeks of repeated cell division, while with direct reprogramming, the cell identity transformation occurs very quickly—20 percent of cells are fully converted within three days...
...working on a book called Back to Blood. It's a novel set in Miami, and much of it has to do with immigration. But if I could have found one real story, I would have done it. I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. Nonfiction is never going...
...times he seemed totally lost, like he was seeing the speech on the teleprompter for the first time. But you finally saw blood, flesh and spit, saw a real human being talking about America's fortunes and Obama's vision like he was leaning against your back door and grabbing you by the lapels. And when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair pivoted to foreign policy, he took out Karl Rove's playbook and went straight after McCain's greatest perceived strength. He ran down a litany of charges, on Afghanistan, Iran, time lines in Iraq, and declared that...