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...souls contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason...
This principle is no surprise to the University. In a 2001 internal memorandum sent to University President Lawrence H. Summers and uncovered by The Boston Globe, top university planner Kathy Spiegelman wrote, “We propose to present a generous offer for a [payment] agreement with Watertown, knowing full well that such an offer will lead to more generous provisions for property acquisition in Cambridge and Boston...
...wife, now an official of the all-powerful visual artists' union - their paths cross again when Mára is commissioned to design a mural for Brecka's school and a statue of a Soviet general. Mára reluctantly accepts the commissions, awarded to him thanks to generous lobbying of the Breckas, and what follows is a unique lesson in how to survive an oppressive regime without completely giving in. Mára's self-destructive ways - he breakfasts on beer and cigarettes - and Brecka's cynicism often makes the spectacle hard to watch...
...ever saw." But then he met and fell in love with Yvette, a divorce with three children. "She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen," Chip recalls, "and she had a real intellectual spark to her." Yvette, for her part, was impressed by "what a remarkably generous person he was." After dating for a year, they got married...
Overall, she said, the seer was “very generous...