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Local commercials have a unique charm. Absent production values, ad-agency guidance, a budget or, often, common sense, the results can be endearingly bad. Two filmmakers with an appreciation for such train wrecks are accepting nominations for businesses in need of a quirky local commercial of their own, documenting the absurdity on their website, I Love Local Commercials. (See the 50 best websites...
...capture films—such as the insufferable “The Polar Express”—were crippled by soulless eyes and blank, plastic faces, the figures in “A Christmas Carol” feel fully human while still retaining a measure of animated charm. Though scenes without supernatural entities are sometimes a little too dark to fully appreciate the detailed animation, especially while wearing the polarized 3-D glasses, the majority of the film is rich and vibrant in its depiction of the bustling streets of wintertime London and the surrounding countryside...
...Everyone loves a joker, but that doesn't mean they can envisage him in high office: 43% of respondents to the conservativehome.com survey felt Johnson wouldn't be a credible candidate for Prime Minister. There are signs, too, that the Johnsonian charm may be wearing thin on some Londoners - even the drivers of the capital's fleet of black taxis, once BoJo's most passionate advocates, who complain that he has yet to deliver on campaign pledges to get London's clogged streets moving again. After some high-profile actions early in his term - including the ouster of Metropolitan police...
...question isn't Saakashvili's charm; it's the quality of his vision for Georgia and whether his wary allies can trust him to lead his country there. The stakes are high. This tiny country half the size of North Carolina is the rawest point of contact between the rising confidence of Russia and the eastward encroachment of the great Western alliances - NATO and the E.U. Yet the most crucial conflict may be the one within Saakashvili himself, between his enormous ambitions for Georgia and the impetuousness that could yet spoil his young democracy or bring more bloodshed...
...think in the case of the Harvard buildings, it was just an enduring sense of spatial wonder that led some patron to put a little extra charm in the houses,” said Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor K. Michael Hays...