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...course, avoiding the subject. A giant papier-mache statue of George W. Bush kissing Lieberman on the cheek-the Senator's famed Britney-Madonna moment, which transpired after Bush finished his 2005 State of the Union address-sat on the back of a nearby pickup truck, thoughtfully provided by a group called Connecticut Bloggers. There was no mention from Lieberman of the elephant in the truck, no explanation of his alliance with the President over the war in Iraq. Just an oblique plea that this should not be a one-issue campaign...
...optimistic businesses are about the future - last week reached its highest level since German reunification. The reason for all this good cheer? Columnists call it the Merkel Factor. It was even given solid form on floats at the annual Carnival parade in Cologne. Last year, a vast, papier-mâché Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover into a motherly barkeeper, huge breasts enveloping her coalition partner, apparently loving him - and Germany - to death. From figure of fun to Mother Germany, from electoral liability...
...research on HIV.” In anticipation of yesterday’s event, the AIDS Coalition screened a series of three films, starting Monday night with “A Closer Walk.” The AIDS Coalition also created a six-foot tall papier-maché AIDS ribbon, which they put in front of the Science Center. While making the paper maché ribbon, Basilico said he thought of HAC’s main display, an AIDS ribbon made of red Christmas lights and chicken wire that is still hanging in front of Grays Hall in Harvard Yard...
...horrendous time and place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mch Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they had no choice but to endure it. Chance played more capriciously with the Americans...
...passed on to what her people believed was the next life. In preparation for the journey, her body's internal organs--all except for the heart--had been removed and replaced with aromatic preservatives. Then she was wrapped in cloth, mummified and placed in a casing made of a papier-mch--like material called cartonnage...