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...Benedict XVI may be about to reclaim his reputation as a no-holds-barred traditionalist. Thanks to Benedict's thoughtful manner, Church progressives had believed that the man who was once the hard-line Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would cut some slack on areas of doctrinal contention - using his intellectual heft and traditional credentials as necessary cover. But as Benedict turns 80 on April 16 and marks two years as Pope on April 19, the once hopeful progressives have all but given up their fantasy of Benedict the Reformer...
...article this week, I wrote about the dearth of strong roles for women in today's movies. Well, the women in Grindhouse are strong, indeed macho, and I'd love to see that as a good thing. But except for McGowan, whose grownup sultriness gives her character some emotional heft, the women here are voluptuous stick figures, living out a guy's idea of excitement. I think that many American filmmakers of the past 30 years have this view of women: comic-book superheroes; Ultra-man with breasts...
...enhancements add even more heft to phones that already allow guests to send free e-mails and view flight and destination information. And guess what? If you can tear yourself away from the screen, they'll even let you order room service...
...look is too often neutralized, made listless, by all the talk. There are many long dialogues, shot in Cyclopsian closeup. Trying to give the orations more heft, the actors shout them, often pausing after each sentence fragment - as Leonidas does in this iambic-pentameter invocation to his troops: "Eat hearty. For tonight. We dine, In hell...
...Alitalia, the wobbly Italian flagship carrier now being sold by the state that could fit nicely into Air France--KLM. Although several other companies have made bids for Alitalia, a stake in the airline would give Air France a dominant position in the lucrative Italian market and more heft and coverage of its international network. Air France scarcely hides its interest in the strategic allure of linking up with Alitalia, but last month it refused to make a bid for a 49.9% stake the Italian government put on the market, which by law would later become a full buyout...