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...suits the sort of CGI movie - your Shrek, your Ice Age - that goes for big laughs extracted from outlandish situations. Nothing wrong with that; cartoon comedy is an honorable, entertaining and often artful confection and has been since the days of Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop and the sublime Daffy Duck. But animation can go deeper, have higher stakes. You see that impulse in parts of nearly every Pixar picture: the first sections of WALL-E and Up have an ambition, a gravity that stretches the format close to that nexus of graceful motion and deep emotion where just about every...
...Parents in town? Relationship milestone? Rialto is a tried-and-true destination that is classy without being stuffy. Here, Chef Jody Adams does “regional Italian cuisine interpreted with New England ingredients” (read: delicious), which means you might be noshing on slow-roasted duck with braised escarole or spicy fish antipasti. If you still want to impress the cute girl in section without spending all of your allowance money, see if she’ll go for the $1 oysters on Monday. Remember, they’re supposed to be an aphrodisiac...
...course, which animal is most valuable to the downtown farmer depends on whom you ask. "[Rabbits] are the ideal urban farm animal," says Carpenter, because "they can feed almost exclusively on Dumpstered items like lettuce, stale bread, etc." Seattle Tilth's Thornton thinks that ducks are better for gardens than chickens and that they provide tastier eggs. "I think the duck is the future," she says. Game on, chicken lovers...
...begin auspiciously. For one, he was nearly arrested at Portuguese customs when he tried to change flights in Lisbon with two fresh goose livers packed in his carry-on (the foie gras, much to Barber's chagrin, was confiscated). And his first stop, a tour of a duck-foie gras farm in upstate New York that uses gavage, left Sousa with literal nightmares. That night, he dreamed of hordes of ducks with very long bills...
...stand-off threatens to tear apart the already fratricidal conservative faction. Ahmadinejad's enemies smell blood, and there is speculation that they may act to turn him into a lame duck, or worse, a sacrificial goat, before his second term even starts. To show that he can hold his own, Ahmadinejad on Sunday, July 26, fired his Intelligence Minister, who had earlier walked out of a Cabinet meeting to protest his vice-presidential choice amid a "verbal quarrel"; his Culture Minister also resigned over the brouhaha. The two Ministers, according to political analysts, were both particularly close to Khamenei...