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...leave off the ly. In an interview, he doesn't grade questions on the curve. Is Three Burials his homage to the Texas landscape? "Homage is not the kind of language that would often be heard in those parts." What about the film's political meaning? "To explain what it means is self-defeating. I could have written a political essay. I made a movie...
...Then how do you explain the "aha!" moment we've all had in the shower or the gym?or anywhere but at work...
...exhilaration of a perfect ace or the thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first people to play tennis in China, we always got new outfits," recalls Zheng, now 22, who nabbed her first Women's Tennis...
...that the frequency of patterns in Mozart's music counteracts irregular firing patterns of epilepsy patients. Unlike the IQ tests, Hughes says, the response he measured has nothing to do with theories of mood and arousal: "Most of my patients are in a coma so you couldn't explain it as, 'I feel better so I perform better.' This is a direct effect on the brain...
...Match Point” worth the ten dollars? “It’s not disposable, you’re left thinking about it for a while afterwards,” she says.For all the luck she claims to have had thus far (and luck hardly begins to explain the critical kudos she’s received for her body of work), Johansson exposes a realistic pessimism when it comes to her future prospects.When asked to describe where she might be in ten, twenty, forty years, she admits she has no clue. “I could be incredibly...