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...crying at a funeral, movies and television have carefully prepared us for how to act in any given situation; there are no more authentic, naked, and unprepared experiences. Instead, we go through the motions we’ve seen before. As The Postal Service sing, “I kissed you in [the] style [of] Clark Gable”—every guy learned to kiss by watching movie kisses, so every kiss is an imitation.The media can’t take away the pain of a funeral or the thrill of a kiss, but it robs...
...nuclear deterrent. But the U.S. won't offer Iran security guarantees without assurances from Iran on such issues as terrorism. So any negotiations over the nuclear issue would force Washington and Tehran to confront their differences over a number of other issues. The two nations are unlikely ever to kiss and make up, but such comprehensive talks could help manage the conflict between them in the interests of stability...
...Pope?s physical presence at Auschwitz - his gestures - were really the news. His deep prayers in front of the wall of death where prisoners were regularly executed; the two-cheeked kiss he shared with a Jewish survivor; his using German for the first time all trip to say a prayer at Birchenau. The visit followed two trips Ratzinger made to the camp a quarter-century ago as a Cardinal...
...also owned by parent company General Electric. "Our role is licensing formats to them, hand-holding, consulting," says Alfredo Richard, a spokesman for Telemundo. The stories are almost always some variation on star-crossed lovers united in the end. "It's a couple that is trying to have a kiss, and there's a writer in the middle that doesn't let them," says Patricio Wills, a longtime telenovela writer and now head of production for Telemundo Studios...
...applying both hard and soft tactics. Over the years, gangsters have intermittently gunned down crusading lawmakers, priests and magistrates, but more often Cosa Nostra looks to forge secret (and peaceful) links with the political establishment. The most shocking allegation of such collusion was, in fact, embodied in an alleged kiss. Italy's former seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti faced a series of trials in the 1990s in which one witness claimed that he had exchanged a kiss of respect with then Mafia "boss of bosses" Salvatore Riina. Andreotti, who is currently a Senator for Life, was definitively absolved...