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...connection between Beethoven and Anna simply made me uncomfortable. One particular scene of unappealing sexual tension finds the copyist “lovingly” sponge-bathing the naked, overweight, ailing, and ancient Beethoven. Spare us. The acting job of Diane Kruger is also a letdown. The creation of her character was inherently risky, but she does a poor job selling it. Her emotion is forced, and she seems as confused as the audience as to the necessity of her character. The smattering of 19th century female gender issues throughout the film were also accordingly lost on her acting performance...
Cambridge residents at last night’s City Council meeting had one word for leaf blowers: leave.Three speakers at the session complained about the nettlesome noise, environmental damage, and potential health consequences caused by the blowers. And at the meeting, City Manager Robert W. Healy announced the creation of a task force to investigate the possibility of a city-wide ban.But Healy’s announcement doesn’t mean the controversy is likely to blow over.The task force includes four Cambridge residents as well as representatives from an equipment manufacturer, a landscaping firm, relevant city departments...
...further. They are either flushed out of the mother’s system without implanting into the uterine wall or are voided because of chromosomal abnormalities. Of this immense number of failed embryos, roughly half do not have gross genetic errors, and in fact carry the information for the creation of a viable human being. But they simply do not continue to exist, and their characteristic combination of genes, which will never again be formed in quite the same way, is lost...
...Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and other languages, Lawrence Buell said.The gutsy little girl has also been featured in Kleenex advertisements, starred in TV shows and animated shorts, and appeared on merchandise such as magic slates.Buell said he doesn’t know why his mother christened her most famous creation “Lulu.”“My mother had an aunt named Lulu (nickname for Louise), but that may be sheer coincidence,” he wrote.If the American Heritage Dictionary is anything to go by, “Lulu” is a fitting name...
...major reasons that divided government can also be productive government, Mayhew notes, is that Congress doesn't just pass things in a vacuum. After 9/11, both parties felt a need to take steps to protect the country, leading to passage of the Patriot Act, creation of the Homeland Security Department and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also Presidents tend to overreach more when one party controls both the executive and legislative branches of government. Think of President Clinton's failed campaign to create universal health care in 1993 and President Bush's brief flirtation with radically restructuring Social Security...