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...Sylvie didn't stop slugging there - and resorted to verbal uppercuts so potent readers might have suspected they were fueled by Getafix's trusty magic potion. (He's called Panoramix in the original French version.) Uderzo fille said she felt compelled to counter "this first victorious act of the invader against the indomitable Gauls" because of her father's "repudiation of all the values" Asterix stands for - "independence, fraternity, conviviality and resistance". Sylvie, then alleged her 81-year-old father had been convinced by unidentified advisers to reverse his fiercely independent, family control of the series, and sell...
...same romantic-comedy vein as Bridget is very much in question. Her mouth always had a malleability that suited her comic needs, but now - perhaps from aging, but more likely something less natural - it's pursed, tense and mean. Even as the kind people of New Ulm work their magic softening up Lucy, the mouth stays in character as the predefrosted boss...
Physics and magic aren't often mistaken, but increasingly, physicists themselves seem to be trying to change that. Last year, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, announced that it had developed materials that could lead to an invisibility cloak. Last month, a group of researchers at Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health reported that it had accomplished something not unlike levitation, causing a microscopic sphere of gold to rise above a glass surface. Now, according to a paper published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science, a team of scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute...
...tightening market for indie films, Fox Searchlight is that rare ministudio that's on a roll, with breakout hits like Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. Searchlight president Peter Rice saw the magic the movie had on its viewers: "It's like they've discovered such a unique experience, they immediately want to share it with other people." Late-summer screenings at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals got a rapturous response, and Searchlight quickly pegged it as a November release, with eyes on critics' awards and the Oscars. (Warner retains a share of revenues.) It all worked perfectly...
...search executive Beaudine. Instead, rely on your "Who network," meaning your community of true friends--and their friends--to get you where you want to go, both professionally and personally. But don't be so sure success is the answer, he cautions: "If money, power and fame were the magic bullet in life, then Elvis Presley would've been the most deliriously happy, contented person on the planet...