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...meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
...voted to sentence her to life in prison, instead of choosing the death penalty. "There was a sharp, collective intake of breath," TIME's Lisa Towle reports. "David Smith, the boys' father, stared straight ahead, not even blinking. Beverly Russell, her stepfather, pulled a handerchief and patted his brow, and Linda Russell, her mother, bowed her head and cried silently into a tissue." The jury of nine men and three women had taken the same amount of time last Saturday to convict the 23-year-old Smith ofmurdering her two young sons,Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months...
...face of a god from his Swiss-German ancestors, but he topped it with a slightly ridiculous pompadour that he wore as a chip on his brow after Washington Post cartoonist Herblock began to lampoon his hairstyle. He detested the media, yet he knew how to use them. He traveled widely, poking into English law, studying prisons, establishing a judicial-administration school. "I want to make things work right," he said when he was derided for spending too much time on the mechanics and not possessing the intellectual capacity to guide legal doctrine...
...Wright-designed project never executed in his lifetime. Monona Terrace is a five-level, semicircular, 1.8 hectare convention center now under construction at the edge of Lake Monona in Madison. Wright spent his youth in the state capital, which is about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright a special feeling for Monona Terrace. Between 1938 and 1958, he designed at least four different versions of the project. (His pupil and son-in-law William Wesley Peters produced another revision after...
...Ford was in awe of Kissinger, and, says Robert Hartmann, chief White House speech writer, "Kissinger, for negotiating reasons, was not ready to throw in the towel." Hartmann persisted, telling Ford "nobody declared this war, but you can declare the end of it." He remembers that Ford's "brow furrowed and he said 'I'm not sure Henry would approve...