Word: danishes
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...images of real human eyes onto the animation, creating eerily emotive characters. The other wordless film, a dark spin on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf using puppets and digital imagery, took home the gold statue. The live-action category includes an austere British western, The Tonto Woman; a Danish cancer weepie, At Night; and the winner, Mozart of Pickpockets, about a deaf-mute child who charms a pair of thieves...
...second largest town after the capital Nuuk. Their sitting room is filled with stuffed seabirds, homemade bows, fishing spears and tiny hand-carved bone figures shaped like mythical creatures. Laid out on the table are their best cups and saucers - it is time for Kaffemik. Translated from the Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local homes. Along with the robust coffee, we are served plates of bread with smoked fish, followed by cakes and buns. And while we eat, our hosts entertain us with...
...Shock tactics in the name of art are nothing new, whether it’s excrement smeared on the Virgin Many (Chris Ofili), crucifixes submerged in urine (Andres Serrano), or Danish artist Marco Evaristti exhibiting live goldfish in functional blenders (several of which were liquidated by exhibition visitors before they were disconnected from the wall). The increasingly common problem, however, is that they no longer really inspire shock, merely a curled lip of disgust, a bemused head-shake, or a shrug—it’s all wearing a bit thin...
...only four—America, Antarctica, Afro-Eurasia, and Australia. Since that is not the case, it is clear that “continent” now includes national political borders, language isoglosses, and historical circumstances. For example, although Greenland is physically closer to North America, it is a Danish province, and thus a part of the European continent...
...time favorite remains Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd’s e-mail to the Harvard Salient in February 2006. After the Salient published the infamous Danish cartoons, Kidd warned the Salient’s editor-in-chief that “some segments of the campus…may become dangerous” in response...