Word: forme
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...festival in Wales, where she is promoting her latest book of verse, Darwin: A Life in Poems. Even before Padel, the naturalist's great-great-granddaughter, wove together fragments of Charles Darwin's writings to create her acclaimed poetic biography, she cited his ideas as an inspiration. "Darwin loved form; he's always saying he loved the rich, complex forms of what he looked at. And that's so like poetry, and that's what I like about poetry too," she told an interviewer. (See pictures marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth...
...have a long record in modern soda-pop history. Most prominently, there was Coca-Cola whose original 19th century formula used unaltered coca leaves. In the early 1900s the company said it would only use "spent," or decocainized leaves, though the company refuses to confirm whether leaves in any form are still used...
...company that actually manufactures Red Bull Cola was quick to tell TIME that they are not allowed to speak about the product. Meanwhile, Bolivia, which has lots of coca leaves to sell, is getting a kick out of the fact Red Bull Cola admits to using coca in any form (since Coca-Cola evades the question). Ironically, the drink is not actually available yet in Bolivia. But, the locals say, this is a great opportunity to show that coca isn't harmful - with or without the cocaine alkaloid. With Reporting by Tristana Moore / Berlin...
...romantic drama Broken Embraces, and Palestine's Elia Suleiman, whose endearing, deadpan The Time That Remains tells, in sour or poignant vignettes, the history of his family and his sundered country. Resnais, whose Wild Grass shows the legendary 86-year-old director at the top of his puckishly anarchic form, won a Life Achievement Award - which is Palme-speak for Thanks for Not Dying Quite Yet. After 60 history-making years in film, he deserved better, as did Suleiman and Almodóvar. Guys, we love ya, you're great, but you're no Brillante Mendoza...
...would be so drastic in reality. Abdelsamad said that he does not believe the concentration fair would be completely eliminated. “That was a harsh assessment,” he said. He said that the fair will likely combine with another event, or take a more subdued form. According to Abdelsamad, the cuts were made with the goal of trying to impact advising as little as possible. “They’re removing things like food at events,” he said. “The core advising is still there.” Eric...