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...total U.S. box office. This is down from 4% to 5% in the 1960s, when foreign-language films were the intellectual rage du jour and an inspiration for smart Hollywood directors. Today, with an adventurous spirit and a full tank of gas, you might track down a small gem like Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, a period comedy with rapier wit, or Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie, a sardonic thriller about the death of the bourgeoisie with fearless star turns by Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire. Those, alas, are just tokens. Few foreign-language films are released in the U.S. these...
...time to get off the soapbox. A friend of mine, upon hearing that another friend had received an offer from an investment bank, mused this gem: “$60,000, eh? I guess that’s the price a soul is going for these days.” And he was right. Enjoy your college life to the fullest, and realize that these four years are so unlike any other four in your life that you’d best “invest” in them to get a good “return...
...SENIWATI GALLERY OF ART BY WOMEN This gem of a gallery, tel: (62 361) 975-485, displays a broad selection of painting, pottery and weaving from more than 40 women artists worldwide. But its main focus is on female painters from Bali itself and on their characteristically dark orange-, brown- and golden-hued work...
...Lady Imelda was forced to leave behind the 3,000 pairs of shoes that would place her in the record books. But she wasn't traveling light: when the couple landed in Hawaii, the U.S. Customs Service confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang Palace, officials discovered a stash of jewelry estimated by the government...
...course, all it takes is one goal for a gem to become a loss...