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After playing royals ancient and modern, a hard-nosed cop and all manner of fantasy females, the Oscar winner has written a memoir, In the Frame. Helen Mirren will now take your questions...
...ceremony, the winner is not given a trophy but instead is presented with a green jacket by the previous year's champion - more a rite of initiation than an accolade. (Even at Augusta, however, there are limits to the old-fashioned quaintness: the jacket also comes with the very modern sweetener of around $1.3 million in prize money...
...revolution in the game itself. When the Masters begins on April 10, competitors will play a course that is 520 yards (475 m) longer than the one that hosted the tournament in 1997. That was the year in which Tiger Woods, a prodigiously long hitter, ushered in golf's modern era with a score of 270, still a record in Masters history. His performance, remarkable in itself, also coincided with two other innovations: experts from defunct cold war ballistics programs began designing space-age golf clubs, and new video-analysis technology enabled coaches to deconstruct Woods' swing into thousands...
...notes of the violins and the booming resonance of the cellos, were forceful in the first movement. Even more impressive than the Players’ confidence and technical skills was the coherence of Lim’s composition. It was a bit of a relief to hear an enjoyable modern piece, given the unpleasant atonality of many new pieces. The first movement was a rhythmically witty exchange among the strings, anchored by a playful call and response between the double bass and the cellos, while the second movement was sweetly melodic and made use of unexpected harmonic changes. The third...
...back where it belonged, "at the edge of global travel." Function aside, pamphlets touted the ergonomic design of check-in desks and the choice of sinks in the washroom facilities. Terminal 5 wasn't merely an airport extension, officials wanted the world to believe. It was a monument to modern travel...