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...exacting curves of Uma Thurman’s outer mouth headline a marvelous cast of lips at the heart of Tarantino’s brazen and torrential work, which opens nationwide today. Under the lens of Robert Richardson, an emerging master of the close-up, Thurman’s lips star in Vol. 2 as though they were themselves a separate character. Indeed, an entire subplot could be drawn merely among the players’ lips, which Tarantino leaves under scrutiny through his final scene...
...author's reputation as a bon vivant ready to down glasses of whisky or trade bawdy jokes with visitors. Singh, 88, is one of India's most prolific writers. In addition to his previous four novels well known either for their wrenching portrayals of moral conflict or for their brazen, over-the-top eroticism, he has written scholarly works on the history of India's Sikhs, numerous short stories and newspaper columns, translated Urdu stories and Punjabi poetry into English, edited a famous Indian magazine (the Illustrated Weekly of India) and a prominent Indian newspaper (the Hindustan Times...
...modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about democracy than the Yanks.) But eventually she accedes even to the brazen request that Yeltsin give a speech sober. "Perhaps we should schedule the speech early in the day," she offers...
...over the terms on which U.S. forces would remain in Iraq. More immediately, however, the toll of U.S. and Iraqi casualties continues to escalate sharply. January had the second-highest casualty total since the fall of Baghdad last year, and February's death toll reached 237 last weekend. The brazen daylight raid by insurgents on a police station and two other facilities in Fallujah last Saturday graphically underscored doubts over the ability of the Iraqi security forces to take over most of the garrison duties currently being performed by U.S. forces...
Terry M. Bennett, whose $4-million donation to the University in 1991 continues to grow in a protected trust, issued a brazen ultimatum in a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers last month threatening litigation...