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Exceptions to these indirect dealings existed too. In 1958, Tom Lehrer was singing We Will All Go Together When We Go ("universal bereavement,/ an inspiring achievement"). Robert Lowell, ahead of his time in such things, wrote Fall 1961: "All autumn the chafe and jar/ of nuclear war;/ we have talked our extinction to death." Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima, Mon Amour might also be judged an exception to the indirectness of the period. In some respects, Hiroshima, Mon Amour is not about Hiroshima at all, only using the occasion as a locus for showing how people learn to deal with...
...first antiaging cream to spark a frenzy with better-than-the-rest claims. Crème de la Mer, bought by Estée Lauder in 1995, was the first cream to become a cult favorite. Made with sea kelp, La Mer sold for more than $150 for a 2-oz. jar, the first skin-care product to break that price point. Another big push came with the publication of well-known dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone's book, The Wrinkle Cure, in 2000 and the launch of his pricey line of skin-care potions. (Perricone just opened a flagship store on Manhattan...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine?a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure...
There is nothing fluffy about this Star Wars game: no Jar Jar, no Ewoks and absolutely no smooching, just a bunch of grizzled space commandos kicking Geonosian butt (and several other species of butt) for the greater glory of the Republic. (It all takes place between Episodes II and III.) Game play combines hard-core first-person combat with some brainier tactical-squad-based action. If the past few movies didn?t have enough military edge for you, don?t worry, it?s all right here. (For PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
...corner of his office, which occupies the second floor of a century-old Italianate villa just blocks from where he grew up, Feng keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine--a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure. --By Susan Jakes/Shanghai