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...Mary Pols covered Hotel for Dogs last week, and I've written about Gran Torino. From my busman's holiday, here are a few notes on the other three top films...
...boss still goes to the office every day despite the directive to work a four-day week. "He's afraid working less hours will make it look like his job is too easy - which would make him more dispensable." She says she will probably skip her annual overseas holiday this year out of fear she'll be replaced. "People used to complain about the long work hours," says Hsinchu psychiatrist Dr. Chen Sung-Wei. "Now they fear that forced vacation days are an omen of worse days to come." Hsinchu psychiatrists like Chen say they've seen their patient rolls...
Everything he did that March 4 conveyed confidence and a break from what he called foolish tradition. Following a hot-dog lunch at the White House, the new President, in holiday mood, beamed indiscriminately as Al Smith, cowboy star Tom Mix and six miles of jubilant Democrats paraded past his reviewing stand. Just a day after a decidedly unpleasant Red Room tea with the Hoovers, Roosevelt returned to the same room to greet 13 children on crutches, emissaries of hope from Warm Springs, Ga. Declaring, "It is my intention to inaugurate precedents like this from time to time," he looked...
...both a beach town, and a temple town. The beach stretches wide and sandy along a rather temperamental section of the Bay of Bengal; discouraging me from entering beyond knee-high. Nonetheless, a quiet gap in which to settle with a book was tough to find amongst the Bengali holiday-makers, at least in this festival time. The temple, meanwhile, honors Lord Jagannath—an iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets in a 45-foot-high chariot each July by thousands of devotees. The festival is also...
Neither garlic nor holy water could ward off the country’s taste for vampires this holiday season. The vampire/human couple at the heart of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful Twilight book series stole the hearts of preteen girls nationwide—studios rushed to produce a movie version, news magazines splashed headlines like “A New J.K. Rowling?”, and Amazon reported that it had sold enough copies of the fourth “Twilight” book to scale Mt. Everest eight times...