Word: carte
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...modern male has a lot of belongings and so many ways to cart them around. From the surge in popularity of messenger bags for males has emerged the "man purse." What is a man purse, exactly? What sets it apart from all other bags? FM scoped out some of its favorites...
...same time, a brand-new probe called Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began its mission to map Mars' surface with unprecedentedly sharp-eyed cameras, ground- penetrating radar and other instruments. The cameras are so powerful that they can actually see Opportunity, which is about the size of a golf cart, from nearly 200 miles up. They can also help find safe routes for the rover. But more important, they will give scientists a map of Mars that will make future exploration--ultimately by humans--much easier to plan...
Thank the cruel, vengeful gods for Cormac McCarthy, who delivers a much more comprehensive apocalypse in The Road (Knopf; 241 pages), which is about half the length of Thirteen Moons but 20 times as ruthless. The scenario: a man and his son push a shopping cart with a wiggly wheel through a landscape from which all plant and animal life has been scoured by some undefined but definitive calamity--we know only of "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that left survivors "sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking...
...crowd in Toronto, though, got the joke, even before the movie was screened. Outside the theater, Baron Cohen entered on a cart pulled by six women dressed as scarved Kazakh peasants. When the film broke down at the start of its run, Baron Cohen, director Larry Charles and visiting fireman Michael Moore passed the time by answering questions. The screening was eventually postponed until the following night, leading to some grumbles from the normally ultra-placid TIFF audience - although the headline on Defamer.com, "Toronto Film Festival Projectionist Slain By Angry Borat Fans," was a slight exaggeration...
...frightening or funny thing is that the movie's likely audience mix of hip slummers and Jackass fans will soon fall in love with the imaginary version. Travel agents, prepare to be swamped with requests for trips to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Real Kazakhstan, cart out some chickens, rapists and whores. But you might want to hold the Jews...