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...Atonement” seems destined for a better end. The younger, more capricious Cecilia Tallis is a much better match for Knightley than the wry Elizabeth Bennet. The World War II backdrop and brief scenes of passion, as well as the quality of MacEwan’s prose, all lend themselves well to Wright’s eye for lush cinematography and emotional bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels...
...smell roast beef. So vegetarians beware: if you don’t want to smell it, don’t come to Smell-O-Vision.” Hinkle says he’d like to make the experience an annual occurence, presenting a variety of films that lend themselves to aromatic enjoyment.“The idea is that if the sing-along ‘Sound of Music,’ ‘Rocky Horror Picture Film,’ and John Waters had a baby, this is what it would be like,” says...
...deliberations; and in the generations to come, their time in office will be remembered as fondly as we remember the administration of U.S. President John Tyler today. If elected, the Martel-Zimmermann ticket will certainly make the UC a more volatile and interesting entity; and for this, I lend them my support...
These semantic questions might do a lot less to solve the stem cell problem than those researchers in Wisconsin and Japan did last week, but they do tell us a little about the mind of the man in charge. In the end, perhaps Bush’s attitude can lend us some perspective about what we ought to value in America. Instead of striving for scientific progress, revolutionary strides in improving health or even moral integrity, let’s just sit back and count our world records...
Reward mechanisms in the brain depend on how well you think other people are doing, a new neurological study suggests. The findings, published in the Nov. 23 issue of the journal Science are the first to lend physiological proof to a longstanding theory among contemporary economists: that people are affected not only by their own achievements and income, but also by how they stack up against their neighbors...