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...Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola; in theaters 6/11) Members of an Italian family fight and unite, but this ain't The Godfather. The glorious black-and-white imagery can't rescue Coppola's film from a fatal case of dramatic inertia...
There is also a gallery devoted to the science of Tintin, with scale models of cartoon inventions like Professor Calculus' glorious red-and-white moon rocket; another holds examples of imaginative merchandising that Hergé himself oversaw. Together, the displays are a testament to what Michael Farr, author of Tintin: The Complete Companion, describes as Tintin's timeless appeal: "Tintin is universal. He transcends fashion, age and nationality. These are classic, inexhaustible stories, beautifully drawn, beautifully written...
More than 100 years before the French and American revolutions, a series of convulsions in Britain built the essentials of the modern democratic state. A civil war, and then what was termed "the Glorious Revolution," established the constitutional primacy of Parliament - a body whose principal chamber is accountable to, and removable by, the popular will, expressing itself in periodic elections. A "parliamentary democracy" is how Britain describes itself, with both pride and, occasionally, condescension for those (as they say) in less happy lands...
...stood in the rose garden on May 19 with state governors and auto executives to announce a new deal that tightens automobile fuel-efficiency standards, Barack Obama took note of the glorious weather. "The sun is out because good things are happening," he said...
...Every baroque period has a flowering genius who rises up as the most glorious expression of its style of life ... He is the first boy to become a millionaire within America's teenage netherworld." - Tom Wolfe, in his piece on Spector, "The First Tycoon of Teen" (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby...