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...thwarting the bad guys. Conducted by a naive FBI agent (Piper Perabo), they do encounter some fitfully funny comic actors (John Goodman, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg), but neither the guest stars nor the sublimely numb Bullwinkle manages to rescue the picture from its too comfortable reliance on retro charm. It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth...
...puffing for wall space in a great city that, unlike New York, Paris, Berlin or almost any other major Western city, still had no "dedicated" museum of modern art. This was a huge Gordian knot in British culture, and Serota--a low-key man of striking tenacity, intelligence and charm--put Alexander's sword...
...newly rich ostentatiously commuting to their indulgences, their cash turned into blighting noise. This market has released too much money into the atmosphere in the form of private planes and onto the lakes and rivers as roostering speedboats and their juvenile-delinquent offspring, Jet Skis, which have the charm of chain saws. Loud, alien metal has colonized...
...spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained as a pilot in East Germany. He returned to North Korea to serve as his father's factotum. Friends describe him as a calculating politician, a man who worked even to charm his father...
...Angeles Gehry absorbed the catch-as-catch-can charm of the built environment of Southern California. After getting an architecture degree at the University of Southern California, he studied for a while at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Not long after, Gehry also changed his name from Goldberg. "In Canada when I was a kid, I remember going to restaurants with my father that had signs up saying NO JEWS ALLOWED. I used to get beaten up for killing Christ. My ex-wife said to me, 'You don't really wanna put your kids through this...