Word: fugit
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Point: Tempus fugit, memento mori
...hasn't stopped confectioner Ladurée from creating a Marie-Antoinette collection of its pastel-colored macaroons. Theme Queen In July, the Château de Versailles reveals a Marie-Antoinette "domain." A spokesman promises "the rediscovery of the intimate Marie-Antoinette" in her bucolic former refuge. Tempus Fugit Swiss watchmaker Breguet is recreating the n?160. The watch - originally commissioned for Marie-Antoinette by a mystery admirer - incorporated every horological complication in existence. N?160's release date and price remain top secret. Dead Sexy Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian has created a fragrance that purports to reflect Marie-Antoinette's tastes...
...embryos are fully human beings. But you can criticize politicians who try to escape this yes-or-no dilemma with calls for compromise or delay or prestigious panels to study the situation and report back in a few months. Can't they hear that sound of clocks ticking? Tempus fugit, assholes...
...Fugit at last gets to play a good guy in Almost Famous. Because it's all about good guys. Here was rock 'n' roll in the '70s, dancing rapidly toward the edge of a cliff, but Crowe--still a kind of wide-eyed wonder--has given his story and his characters happy endings. We would like to do the same here, and so we return to the real Pennie Lane. "I'm putting it together now," she says. "It's gonna be a retirement home called the Raisin Ranch for aging rock stars and wayward groupies. We're all gonna...
Almost Famous has a lot of smart lines, but the best are in Patrick Fugit's face. Fugit, who plays the teen Crowe character, William Miller, has a baby face, creased with dimples and given to grins, but it is stuck on a tall, gawky body. Then he speaks, and he sounds so much older than he looks it's as if his voice had been dubbed by the adult he would become--the adult who became Crowe. Watchful and open, skeptical but not cynical, Fugit manages to embody both the child and the man, the boy who went...