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...Selick adapted from a kids' book by graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, begins with a needle thrust in the viewer's eye. Mostly, though, 3D is used to heighten the picture's antirealistic, otherworldly mood. The illusion of depth is boldly stylized; the scene of a front yard or a kitchen will be a series of flat surfaces, like the planes in a pop-up picture book. This is the animated film as art film. Coraline doesn't try to ingratiate; it just looms, like a cemetery gate, daring curious souls to tiptoe in and fend for themselves...
...prop up the currency, but after blowing through tens of billions of dollars in September and October, it changed course in November and has since begun a policy of phased devaluation. That's calling up bad memories of the ruble's collapse in 1998 and prompting nervous talk around kitchen tables about what...
Having the several government authorities in the mix of parsing how the Merrill merger went down puts too many cooks in the kitchen. The B of A board was not paying attention to management when it invested in risky assets and lost billions of dollars. Perhaps its members can earn their fees...
...change. Hollingsworth and Guest spent nearly five months training for the Lyons event, motivated, Hollingsworth says, "by the sense that the U.S. is always the underdog. A lot of Europeans still think that American cuisine is hamburgers and hotdogs. That just makes me want to strive harder." At their kitchen in California, they ran time trials, tinkering with everything from the garnish on their pistachio-crusted cod to the shape of their beef filet (in the end, it went from square to round), and learning to move past each other in a graceful ballet...
Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. "I was baptized, confirmed and married there," she reports. Her family had moved two lots down from Euclid's First Presbyterian, so she was able to watch through the kitchen window a few years ago as fellow parishioners knocked down the church, buried its fixtures and then put a match to what remained, sending a thousand Sundays of memories up in smoke...