Word: kore
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...flushed cheeks, and colored garments are not only presumed but utterly normal. WHOLE NEW CONTEXTS Adding color to two models of the same sculpture brings to attention details that were lost through the wearing of time. For example, the famous “‘Peplos’ Kore,” (c. 530 B.C.E.), a Greek statue of a young girl, can tell two different stories. In one version, her garment is painted to look like a peplos (a traditional dress worn by daughters of Athenian aristocracy). In another version, her garment is decorated with various animals...
...vigorous, violent Korean melodrama ?Old Boy.? This was precisely the sort of genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict fighting to reclaim her young son in ?Clean,? a Franco-Canadian drama - and a rather laggard, predictable one - directed by Cheung...