Word: connection
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Recipient of last year's Best Book award at the prestigious comics festival in Angouleme, France, this French import is an emotion-packed story about a burned-out photographer struggling to connect with the world and a woman. It becomes a book about family history, class struggle, guilt and forgiveness. Charmingly drawn, from the vibrant colors of the French countryside to the dreary suburbs of Paris, and filled with endearing characters, Larcenet's Ordinary Victories has all the attraction and dislocation of a trip abroad...
...film appreciation. In a cozy apartment near Dupont Circle, the 12-watt subwoofer was okay, but there wasn't enough power or clarity coming from the built-in 5.6-watt speakers. The good news there is that the Cinego has analog and digital audio outputs, so you can connect your own stereo pair, or even a 5.1-surround sound amp and speakers if you like. But then you'd lose the ability to watch-and-dash (or, at home, watch-and-stash). In the morning, to my host's chagrin, I packed everything back into the box and walked...
...father tries to connect with the son he abandoned years ago: Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, William Hurt in The King, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking. And Darth Vader in the Star Wars series, whose Sith and final episode opened here...
...clickety-clack," he announces in the first verse of I Play Chicken. But he would rather not make it an issue. On tour with Big & Rich last summer, Coleman signed autographs on Confederate flags when they were proffered. "On some level, it's a neat feeling that you can connect with people musically regardless of what your politics are. On another level, a choice between signing flags and selling shoes is not a choice...
Chadbourne said that planners had to prioritize transportation planning in order to connect the two sides of the river...