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...Jules Dassin, who died this week in Athens at 96, you could say he was the prime developer of the movie crime caper, and leave it at that. His 1955 Rififi, with its wordless, minutely-detailed, half-hour jewel robbery, and the 1964 Topkapi, with an even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected...
...directed nothing but the 1955 French jewel-heist flick Rififi, his cinematic reputation would have been secure. But in addition to taut capers like Rififi and 1964's Topkapi, American director and screenwriter Jules Dassin, who was blacklisted from Hollywood after being identified before Congress as a former communist, was also a master of film noir--exemplified in movies such as 1948's police thriller The Naked City and 1950's Night and the City. Among all his solid works, though, it was Rififi--with its masterly 30-min. dialogue- and music-free robbery sequence as a centerpiece--that remained...
...prevent further deterioration of the objects. The HMNH says it is excited about the opportunity to debut the previously glass creatures. “Part of the mission is to showcase Harvard collections such as this one which has never before been showcased in Cambridge. This is a jewel of a collection and we are absolutely thrilled to present it to the public,” says Elisabeth Werby, Executive Director of the HMNH. As for future plans regarding the collection, the MCZ hopes to begin an extensive restoration project to repair glue on the models and create custom cabinetry...
From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit...
...right. There isn't much sugar in the Amazon. But my next stop was the Cerrado, south of the Amazon, an ecological jewel in its own right. The Amazon gets the ink, but the Cerrado is the world's most biodiverse savanna, with 10,000 species of plants, nearly half of which are found nowhere else on earth, and more mammals than the African bush. In the natural Cerrado, I saw toucans and macaws, puma tracks and a carnivorous flower that lures flies by smelling like manure. The Cerrado's trees aren't as tall or dense as the Amazon...