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Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...
...quite unpersuasive. Balthus' interiors can have a chilly and highly stage-managed perverseness, as in The Room, 1952-54, where the young girl sprawls on a chair in utter abandonment, flooded with the light from a huge window whose heavy curtains are being pulled back by a sinister dwarf...
...Blazers, Lakers, Spurs, and Kings are all bona fide threats to winning the crown, and most likely will face off against one another come the conference semifinals and finals. Yet teams like the Mavericks, Suns, Jazz, and T-Wolves will all provide entertaining first-round series that will dwarf any potential excitement generated in the Eastern Conference's first two rounds...
...winners than Immelt: Robert Nardelli and W. James McNerney, two Welch-trained knights-in-the-running who failed to win the crown. With Welch's shoes filled--if that's possible--these executives won't stay at GE much longer, and the pay packages that land them will probably dwarf what will initially be given to Immelt. A signing bonus in the tens of millions of dollars? Instant vesting in stock plans? Huge guaranteed annual bonuses? A big chunk of the company? Such goodies are widely available to top-flight managers in today's mobile CEO sweepstakes...
...type away at Lamont, defending the commodification of self in a paper on dwarf tossing for Justice, nature calls. What should I do? First, I could leave my laptop in mid-sentence and run to the bathroom. Second, I could close my laptop and attempt to cover it with loose papers and my jacket. Third, I could take my laptop into the bathroom and try not to drop it. Yet, should I not have a fourth option? Should I not be able to leave my laptop open, leisurely stroll to the bathroom, use the hand dryer twice, check e-mail...