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...Limits of Control is like an antidote to Internet surfing, and it is easy to fall into its enigmatic rhythms, bobbing along in the shallows like - good heavens, it's all connecting now - a drunken boat or something. In this spirit, the first time the Nude (Paz de la Huerta) hove into sight, nude on the Lone Man's bed, her rump in the air, wearing librarian glasses, she made perfect sense. Every cinematic hitman has a distracting girl stashed somewhere, and the blatant use of her sexuality needs to be parodied. (Her first line is the utterly rhetorical...
...their lives, bending like the curves of the river to which they ultimately return. In addition to the show engagement with the universal themes of love, sacrifice and struggle, it also casts light on the problem of racism. It highlights the malice of racial prejudices by portraying Julie La Verne (Lori Tishfield), the company’s original lead and Magnolia’s best friend, as a martyr who rescues Magnolia while both face terrible adversities. As director F. Wade Russo writes in his Director’s Note, the show opened on Broadway in 1927 and raised controversy...
...Cleanest Cities for Short-Term Particle Pollution: 1. Alexandra, LA 2. Amarillo, TX 3. Austin-Round Rock, TX 4. Bismarck, ND 5. Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville...
Peppered with questions about the issue in a tense press conference, Córdova responded that there had been mixed signals from the flu epidemic in La Gloria and most who had taken ill had suffered from a familiar form of the influenza virus. He also said the government had no model of the H1N1 virus - which has features of avian, pig and human viruses - to base their studies on. "We never had this kind of epidemic in the world," he said on Monday. "This is the first time we have this kind of virus." As if to underline the point...
...La Gloria outbreak may also give clues about the origins of the virus. The community is a few miles from an industrial pig farm Granjas Carroll de Mexico, which is 50% owned by Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, Inc. Residents have complained for several years about effluent - composed of animal waste and porcine feces - dumped by the farm and accuse it of making them fall sick. However, government agricultural experts joined the company in saying they have found no traces of swine flu in its hundreds of workers or thousands of hogs and piglets...