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...process, he turns a mansion into a phantasmagorical torture chamber. Then he meets Ichi (Naori Omori), a schizophrenic hit man tormented by the pleasure he takes in ultraviolent killing. Director Miike obviously wants to signpost Japanese society's ills and does so with a broad and bloody brush. Ichi dispatches his victims with a large rotating metal blade that flicks out of his sneaker. Heads, legs and arms erupt amid geysers of blood from his almost every encounter. A woman's nipples are sliced off; one male victim, suspended naked in midair by wires, comes close to losing his family...
...intelligence has several important advantages over the government's. Because a business focuses on a specific industry and specific regions, it often develops a greater depth of intelligence in its specialties than is possible for the CIA, with its worldwide responsibilities and tendency to throw resources at the biggest brush fire. Chubb, Skold says, started seeing the first signs of trouble in Argentina two years ago, thanks to the insight of an underwriter who had spent considerable time in the country developing contacts within government and business. Early last year, Chubb forecast that an economic meltdown would make currency transfers...
...still-beautiful colors - greens, reds and pastels against vivid blue skies - have been painstakingly cleaned with small poultices of Japanese paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen...
Don’t go crazy with them though. The mental shock of jumping from a two-page article about which type of make-up brush to use when applying eyeshadow to an in-depth report about sexual deviants or a detailed account of one woman’s traumatizing experience in a third world country is a bit much. The juxtaposition trivializes what should be a serious story featured in a magazine with other serious stories. I find myself grimacing at the just-for-shock-value pictures and poo-pooing the sensationalist headlines, while neglecting to read, or even...
...doubt our activist friends will brush off the tired argument that a few colleges like MIT or Wellesley pay over $14 per hour, so why not Harvard? Harvard has the most money, so Harvard should pay the most. But PSLM sees the world with tunnel vision. They always leave out that in comparisons to other Boston area schools, Harvard is in the middle of the pack, not the bottom as they pretend...