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...this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal), who's 76 but young at heart, or at least early middle-aged. They have a quick tryst in his apartment, which begins a love affair that lets them both act like...
...presses her objections, Jones has her confined to the psychopathic ward of the Los Angeles Hospital, in the company of other women with the potential to embarrass the cops. ("If we're insane," says Amy Ryan as a prostitute subjected to electroshock therapy for her outspokenness, "nobody has to listen to us.") Her only ally is a preacher and radio crusader, Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who sees Christine's case as another heinous example of the Police Dept.'s venality...
...road between Zeebrugge and battlegroup headquarters -that they depend on helicopter drops for everything from food to entertainment. And when the helicopters don't come, they have to make do with whatever they have. Today they relax, bare-chested, in shorts. They wander around in plastic sandals and listen to the Police and the Eagles. "Hotel California," with its iconic line, "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave," has special meaning for the men waiting to get out on R&R. A promised helicopter ride back to headquarters didn't come today; perhaps...
...haven't bought a CD or MP3 for years. Instead, I subscribe to music - I pay a small monthly fee to Rhapsody and can access most of the world's music (more than 5 million songs) by streaming it via the Net to my home audio system. I can listen to just about any song I want, any time, anywhere. That's known, in the geekosphere, as "music dial tone...
...built out of tofu," says Hu Yuefu, 44, of the school building that collapsed in the magnitude 7.9 quake and killed his 15-year-old daughter Huishan. He believes local government officials and the building contractors are responsible. As he speaks, a crowd gathers around to listen and offer their support. "I hope there is an investigation," Hu says. "Otherwise, there are a thousand parents who would beat them to death...