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Israel denied committing any atrocities and blamed the Palestinians' defensive strategy for the damage and civilian casualties. "A refugee camp is where there are people who are living with a humanitarian crisis," said Colonel Gal Hirsch, the Israeli army's chief of operations. "The Jenin refugee camp is a military combat position. It was set up that way because the Palestinians decided they wanted to fight us there. There wasn't a massacre there; there was a battle." The pattern of the Israeli attack was frighteningly direct. Helicopter gunships pounded areas where gunmen had taken positions. As the gunmen were...
...took a complex role as the frustrated wife in Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies, and videotape (1989) for the actress to show moviegoers and Hollywood that she was an actress. The Object of Beauty, Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral solidified her status as a go-to gal to ornament the smarter comedies for grownups. But in Crush, MacDowell is the center of the action and the acting. It's her movie, and she soars with...
...little gift just outside the door of my building? No, I say. And if my refusal to grin and bear it makes me a bad person, so be it. But if this study is to be believed, I suspect it actually just makes me an all-American kind of gal...
...acts involve humans, however, except in an officiating capacity. Conley's subject is Kentucky's exclusive breeding sheds. Because the Jockey Club--which regulates the $34 billion Thoroughbred industry--forbids artificial insemination, Thoroughbreds are made the old-fashioned way. It's a micromanaged, ritualized affair, from the guy (or gal) who lifts up the mare's tail to the fellow who guides the machinery into place. Millions of dollars often depend on the orderly exchange of a few cc of body fluid...
...were far superior as integrated works of popular art. Astaire?s prime-time vehicles with Ginger were pretty inane, except for the glorious terping, and his directors added little but traffic management to the packed Astaire brought. Kelly worked for better directors - Busby Berkeley on "For Me and My Gal" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire, who was "only" the star and choreographer, could avoid blame...