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...many - if not most - of the world's last truly pristine landscapes. International treaties preserve Antarctica for scientific research and tourism. And, unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic has yet to see many drastic effects of climate change. Visitors can still see cliffs of ice and the brilliant light blue of icebergs. They can see humpback whales and leopard seals cruise alongside their Zodiacs, or watch penguins chasing each other along the shore and pecking at visitors' boots...
DIED. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, etiquette maven and founder of classes for girls (White Gloves) and boys (Blue Blazers) once offered in 800 U.S. cities; in Kewanee, Ill. Raised in an orphanage and later on an Iowa farm, Stewart married at 17, moved to Washington and became a successful model. She switched careers after co-writing, with Art Buchwald's wife Ann, the lighthearted surprise-hit etiquette tome White Gloves and Party Manners...
...discuss the script, Butler came with his character already prepared.“When he showed up, he stomped around the coffee shop and he was acting like Leonidas,” Snyder recalls.The director shot the film in only 60 days. Because everything was done against a blue or green screen, however, post-production took a year.GENDER-NEUTRAL DESPOTSantoro, who portrays Persian king Xerxes, explains that the blue-screen process also presented a unique challenge for cast members, who had little concrete material to interact with while shooting scenes.“Once you’re there acting...
...with Cold War conformity than the YouTube and MySpace culture that we live in today. But Igo ends her book with a consideration of the attempts made by contemporary journalists and social scientists to understand segments of our society—the Soccer Moms, Young Literati, and Red and Blue Staters—who we live with as fellow citizens.Though the era of searching for that “Average American”—representative of the country’s culture, attitudes, and practices—may have passed, our compulsion for understanding where we fit within...
...severally geometric garment. Also it was really red.MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Usually, I unequivocally hate what Maggie Gyllenhaal wears. She falls victim to things that I would never even be tempted to try, like Heidi braids or white t-shirts without a bra. Her Oscar dress, however—a dark blue Proenza Schouler with ostrich feather trim—was both dramatic and original: something quite hard to pull off. Pregnancy—and therefore, Peter Saarsgard—have inexplicably inspired this former granola hipster to hire a competent stylist.CATE BLANCHETTPretty much every time I’ve seen...