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...biggest thrill though is Salander, feminist icon to some, disturbed vigilante to others, who matters more on the screen than she did on the page, far more than her male co-star. This Lisbeth is proactive. She inserts herself into Blomkvist's detective work before she's asked. Where you might expect a movie to also make her sassier, this one makes her, if anything, angrier, more furtive, more darkly funny. Shorn of the competing love interests Larsson gave him in the book, Blomkvist only has eyes for Lisbeth now, which makes him more likeable, but less interesting - a shame...
...like little cars. I really didn't pan the car. I've read a couple reviews that say, "Vuic doesn't lay off the Yugo." But I'm not really calling it anything. I'm trying to examine why Americans have made it such an icon for failure. I wanted to understand why we hate this car so much, even though most Americans have never seen a Yugo, let alone driven...
...Domoslawski maintains that he didn't set out to destroy a man he still considers to be a great writer. In fact, he said in an interview with Polska the Times, he wrote the book with "empathy" for his old friend. "He has been a myth and an icon," the biographer said. "Perhaps now we will look at him as a human being in his all complexity." And some commentators outside Poland have praised Domoslawski's work for its honest portrayal of the man. "I find that the author tries to be fair, allowing many different voices to speak," British...
...China. "You have a culture that reveres the tiger," says Tilson. "It's part of their fabric." By pulling a Chinese subspecies from the brink of extinction, China seeks not only to overturn an appalling record on conservation and the environment but also to gain a powerful new icon of national resurgence - not a cuddly giant panda this time but a formidable predator that eats herbivores for breakfast...
...challenging. Derived from just six animals - two male, four female - caught between 1958 and 1970, they are so inbred that they are virtually brothers and sisters. But, Tilson adds, "China is an economic juggernaut, a military powerhouse. As part of that portfolio they need to bring back the icon of Asian wilderness. And that's the tiger." (See "Saving the World's Endangered Species...