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...Boleyn girl—who goes unnoticed until the King brings her to court. For a story laced with courtly flirtations and extravagant revelry, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is unexpectedly dark. What is even more surprising is how well the saturated lighting suits the pale, delicate creatures of the glamorous court. The score includes undertones of the whispering, scheming courtiers and the distant, outraged cries of the English public. It deftly builds tension and suspense to the point where it quite sufficiently replaces extraneous dialogue. Intimate interior scenes are spliced with establishing shots that show...
...Greeks, it's not so ideal. They want the marbles back, and the New Acropolis Museum is an ingenious part of their lengthy campaign to retrieve them. It will display the Greek portions of the Parthenon frieze side by side with pale plaster copies of the portions in London, like empty chairs at a banquet table. Meanwhile, the Greeks have also proposed that the British Museum might simply lend them the Elgin Marbles for the official opening of the museum later this year. There's just one problem. The British Museum insists that Greece must first recognize, formally, that...
...unless they were convinced that Britain was deadly serious about military retaliation. Accordingly, the government deliberately harshened its rhetoric, while using every other means at its disposal to bring diplomatic pressure on Argentina. Pym set the tone. "Britain does not appease dictators,' he told a solemn House of Commons. Pale and grave, Thatcher answered further opposition cries for her resignation with the tart retort: "No. Now is the time for strength and resolution...
...grace for the film, the character written for him was strange, creepy, pedophilic, and—above all—not funny. Was I the only one to pick up on the moment where he actually comes on to the knocked-up, 16-year-old Juno?The supporting roles pale in comparison to Page’s portrayal of Juno.New York Times’ A.O. Scott called Page “poised [and] frighteningly talented,” and I wondered for a moment if he had accidentally misplaced a description of Denzel Washington from “American Gangster...
...which gets 30% of its automobile fuel from sugar-cane ethanol - has managed to reduce once stifling air pollution. In the U.S., switching to domestically produced biofuels helps cut dependence on foreign oil, and boosts income for farmers. But in all of these cases, the benefits now seem to pale next to the climate change deficits. Fargione points out that if the U.S. managed to use 15 billion gallons of ethanol by 2015 - as is mandated in last year's energy bill - it would still only offset 7% of projected energy demand. That won't put Venezuela or Iran...