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...Average wait during peak hours in security lines at 10 of the busiest airports...
...have thought that was a well-aimed insult. He probably didn't know that Andre actually intended the piece to be walked on. But that's how it is with Minimalism. It has a way of confounding its critics. Four decades after its peak years, the last and most rebarbative movement of High Modernism turns out to be durable stuff. Deeply embedded in the DNA of much of the art that came after, it has likewise become the vocabulary of choice for almost all monuments since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the semiofficial format of grief...
...Byrne's love scene with Pitt, nine years of yoga helped with any performance anxiety she might have felt. "It's really important to try and come from a place of relaxation," she explains, "because only if you're relaxed will you be able to perform at your highest peak...
That path is littered, Chappell claims, with disaffected kids who are "leaving the sport in droves." Playing standards, he adds, are declining at many levels. The knee-jerk retort - What could be wrong with a system that's kept Australian teams at the peak of world cricket since the mid '90s? - is "simplistic," he says: the consequences of what's happening will soon reach the top, and dynasties can crumble. The West Indies were dominant in the '80s, but cricket there is now languishing, as it is to varying degrees and for different reasons in England, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe...
...about now, though only a little. A few days later, Hurricane Marty, the second hurricane to hit the production, blew down the walls of Troy. The walls were rebuilt, and Pitt's leg healed, but shooting was suspended for three months, during which both actors had to stay in peak physical shape. "You could say it was just another one of the challenges," Bana says wryly...