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...product they’ve been asked to deliver. To take just one example, Ash is not only Lauren’s father and Telly’s companion but also, serendipitously, a former New York Ranger, complete with the physical prowess and lightning reflexes necessary to foil the plots of men in black and extraterrestrial beings alike...
...diminutive race. They are pure cartoon - cute and pantsless, with four fingers on each hand and smooth, rounded, sexless bodies. At first their personalities are similarly simple. Fone, the dreamy one, must constantly get out of the scrapes created by Phoney, the avaricious schemer, and Smiley, a goofball comic foil whose tongue hangs out like a friendly dog's. Over the book's course the characters change in subtle ways. Fone goes from the book's main character to being its Hero, just as Smiley's foolishness has an almost saintly quality to it and even Phoney's plots...
Throw away that corkscrew. This month U.S. wine producer Three Thieves releases Bandit Bianco, an Italian white, in a 1L brick. It is the first widely marketed varietal wine in the U.S. to be packaged in Tetra Pak aseptic cartons--layers of polyethylene, paper and aluminum foil more commonly associated with milk. Europeans and South Americans have been drinking wine from them for years. In 2003, packaging company Tetra Pak, based in Switzerland, sold 1.6 billion wine containers globally. They're cheaper than bottles to make, and unopened they keep everyday wine fresh for a year. The time...
When no. 1-ranked Valentina Vezzali faced off against No. 2 Giovanna Trillini in the women's individual foil final last week, they weren't merely dueling for gold. They were fighting for the title of top fencer in Jesi, the small Italian town where both grew up. And since Jesi has dominated the sport for more than a decade, being best in town right now means being best in the world. Before Athens, Trillini had won four Olympic golds (three team, one individual) and Vezzali had won three (two team, one individual). On the morning of their duel, held...
...wide, crooked smile. It's disarming and endearing, and as Guevara's carefree escapade turns into something far more significant, it proves an excellent tension-breaker. As his spirited friend and travel companion Granado, Rodrigo de la Serna (who's related to the real Guevara) provides the perfect foil to his shy, noble cohort. Guevara may be the heart of the film, but Granado - warm, witty and full of life - is its soul. De la Serna tackles the role of skirt-chasing, wise-cracking Granado with mischievous glee. And why shouldn't he? This is, after all, his story...