Word: danishness
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...undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale skin. So, as in his 1994 Danish TV series, The Kingdom (a bizarre blend of ER and Twin Peaks), he uses a handheld camera that swivels like a bobble-head doll. It's intimate, all right, and utterly maniacal--as deranged as the villagers think Bess has become...
...Danish zoo recently concluded a special exhibit of rarely displayed primates--the unpredictable and somewhat mysterious homo sapiens. Yes, the Copenhagen Zoo invited a Danish couple to live, fully clothed, between the baboons and the lemurs. Some reports claim it to be the first such "human captivity." Alas, another Harvard first goes unrecognized...
...Cronin's with my friends, but retired by ten o'clock. An alarm woke me at six; shaggy with sleep, unshaved and uncombed, with a black binder of poetry wedged under my arm, I plugged up hill to Harvard Square and a booth at Albiani's, black coffee, Danish, a lined pad, and my Parker 51.I crossed old words out and substituted words that probably I would cross out in their turn tomorrow. After two hours I walked back to Eliot House and breakfast with the day ahead of me: lectures, Grolier, reading, Cronin...
...decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel. "In those years there will be a lot of health and biomedical progress...
...last Monday the 40,000 troops had all but vanished. The only thing left behind was a mobile armored battalion, which positioned its tanks and artillery about 15 miles southeast of the city. "They are dug in with barbed wire and in a defensive posture," said a Danish Special Forces colonel with the United Nations. "I think they are staying around to make sure that the P.U.K. doesn't come back...