Word: paled
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...Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1967 crime film, aptly titled Le Samourai, Kitano walks slowly, stares blankly; he might be a patient whose life the surgeons have saved by removing his soul. Like Clint Eastwood in his early surly days (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Pale Rider), Kitano is implacable, dispensing retribution that may also be justice, but only coincidentally. He is a Zen or zombie Clint?a Dirty Harakiri...
Consider for a moment the spreading oaks of the Yard, the carefully ringed elms of House courtyards, the pale beeches lining Memorial Drive. Something in the planned arboreal abundance ties this physical piece of Cambridge together into something more than historic buildings or great minds: a university...
...there's so much maneuvering going on that it's too early to pin down. Sharon has said he wants a unity government, with Barak as defense minister. But Barak can't publicly favor a unity government, because the basis of his campaign is that Sharon is beyond the pale - "Too extreme for Israel," as one of his campaign slogans goes. This even though a couple of months ago Barak was trying to get Sharon into a unity government. Still, if he's campaigning on the basis that Sharon's too extreme, Barak can't easily say he'll join...
...such obsessiveness emerge images of seemingly effortless beauty. Zhang shows us the unedited six-and-a-half-minute sequence from the Mongolian shoot, a scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto...
...Election Commission declared Gusmorino the winner shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday. When the commission called Gusmorino at his victory party, the room--packed with supporters and bathed in pale orange, Gusmorino's campaign color--exploded in cheers and hugs...