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Camouflage is not all it seems. When man first daubed himself in mud, dressing to fool the eye was the art of the hunter rather than of the prey. Its use in military defense, according to "Camouflage," an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum until November, evolved as a result of the advent of long-range precision weaponry. Only in 1915, when the French army established a specialist camouflage unit, did the study of concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge...
...than a second obliges one to contemplate, with a kind of cringing pleasure, his torso. The chest is large, white and flabby, suggesting a beached sea otter, and it's pocked with what looks like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts. It might be a helicopter's eye view of merino sheep stranded on a tundra...
...That's too harsh. What's important in this sort of comedy is not to hit the bull's-eye with every gag but to establish a genial connection between the star and his audience. That's Ferrell's main achievement during this hot run of his. Since his first smash, the 2003 Elf (still his highest grosser), he has kept busy and lucky: building a succession of hits, dabbling in the higher-IQ type of comedy (Stranger Than Fiction), cameoing in his friends' films, occasionally lending his luster to indies nobody sees. One of these, Winter Passing, grossed...
...deeply disturbed by the picture of three prepubescent girls in miniskirts. Parents, please do not allow your children to leave home looking like this. Not only does such clothing place a bull's-eye on them for sexual predators, but it also encourages them to seek out the affirmation of boys at far too young an age. Help your young girls focus on building character, not a wardrobe meant to attract attention. Then maybe you wouldn't have to worry so much about your 12-year-old contracting a sexually transmitted virus. Julie A. Outzen, ST. PAUL, MINN...
...Thought to strike about 1% of adults, bipolar can look a lot like depression even to the trained eye. Though it's defined by almighty shifts in mood-from sad and hopeless to mania, in which irrational thoughts and impulses run amok - bipolar sufferers tend to spend much more time in an emotional black hole and may consult a doctor before they've experienced a high. In these cases, a misdiagnosis of depression happens a lot, says Malhi, and that's a problem because bipolar is "a totally different condition" requiring different treatment...