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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...
...would have been "unthinkable only a few years ago and therefore at least symbolically worrisome." Symbolism aside, it helps the Soviets support their expanded military activities in Siberia. Sources in Seoul also say that Soviet submarines are bolder than in the past about playing cat-and-mouse with South Kore an coastal patrol boats...
GREASED LIGHTNING Directed by Michael Schultz Screenplay by Kenneth Vose, Lawrence Du Kore, Melvin Van Peebles and Leon Capetanos...
Apparently funeral statuary that once stood over the graves of a brother and sister, both pieces show the same slightly smiling, childlike look so typical of the kouros and the kore of the time. Although the feet are missing from the statue of the youth (as is the right hand), the figure stands more than six feet, somewhat larger than lifesize. His wavy hair, held in place by a headband, still bears traces of its original red color. The girl wears a diadem of lotus blossoms and other flowers on her shoulder-length curls and a chain of tiny pomegranate...