Word: digester
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Jackie Chan is considered cool, and despite the fact that Legend of Drunken Master has long been a favorite among his Asian fans and won Best Action Choreography (Chia-Liang Liu) at the 1995 Hong Kong Film Awards, it's a difficult film to digest if you're in a semi-serious or just a typical mood. It's very difficult not to appreciate the humor of a line (and I am serious that this line was in the movie) that goes, "Fei-Hung, don't be ashamed. When we were little kids, we used to go naked...
...hugely popular Blackthorne Inn on Point Reyes Peninsula in Inverness, Calif., were featured in, say, Architectural Digest, its style might be characterized as Tree-House Chic. Built four stories up a hillside teeming with 180-ft. Douglas firs, the Blackthorne is a combination of rustic and posh (read: a hot tub set amid the clouds) that has led fans to dub it a "treetop fantasy...
...world, one of the current notable trends is the gradual marginalization of art--you know, pictures and stuff. There may not be another crowd-pleasing Warhol on the horizon, but museums must have their blockbusters, so they have been resorting more often lately to shows of easy-to-digest fashion or pop-music artifacts. The embarrassing "Rock Style" show that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City put on earlier this year stuffed both trends into one silly shopping bag. And one of the fall's biggest shows will be devoted to Giorgio Armani, the Italian clothing designer...
...President Clinton surely hoped that sanctions and cruise missiles would have long ago dispatched Saddam to the garbage pail of history, but now he has to digest the irksome reality that the Iraqi dictator is likely to survive his own administration. The culprit here may be Clinton himself, because his administration has conspicuously failed to formulate a viable Iraq policy. Back in 1991, President Bush held back from destroying Saddam's regime out of concern for regional stability. The collapse of the ethnic-minority regime in Baghdad would almost certainly cause the Shiite majority in the south to ally with...
...expecting to come away with a clear sense of how Mary has been portrayed over time. A recognition of the subtle connections between the artwork and the text as well as an appreciation of the art on its own terms is well worth the effort. Don't expect to digest this exhibit in one visit...