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...Presidents flocked to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior to pay their last respects. The Orthodox Christian funeral was the first such for a Russian leader in the last 113 years. And there were full military honors, President Vladimir Putin solemnly walking behind the gun carriage bearing the coffin, and the artillery salute at the VIP Novodevichye cemetery, while the nation observed an official period of mourning, albeit truncated to a single...
...culture already obsessed with eating, the Tainanese are at the extreme end of the scale. On Yenping Street in the city's Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back...
...technical elements of “Lucie Cabrol” are lovely. The lighting, designed by Joshua Randall, casts much of the play in a dimly-lit zone, with some nice effects (the red light spilling from a wood stove, for example) that occasionally verge into gimmickry (the coffin-shaped spotlight that Lucie lies in, for example...
...Kubrick’s connections will land him a spot on the Las Vegas show circuit. The Pratt scenes begin with an unnecessary musical number: Pratt swaggers down the stairs, belting a vapid tune from the balustrade. When the camera zooms in, it delivers the final nail in the coffin and buries the film alive. Conway is eventually apprehended, but rather than end the misery at this point, the final scenes harp tritely on questions of identity and authenticity. Conway is placed in an asylum full of other Kubrick impersonators, fends off a lawsuit with claims of insanity, becomes...
...religious left may now see an opportunity to flex its muscles in the 2008 presidential campaign, but the religious left is hardly a new phenomenon. Most Americans are probably familiar with the following names: Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Robert Drinan, William Sloane Coffin, Paul Moore, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Evan Edwards, New York City...