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...Shia LaBeouf or a Christian Bale, 9 gives us nine puppet-like dolls as stand-ins for humanity, manufactured by the same scientist whose invention of a giant "brain" machine lead to the ruin of man. The filmmakers refer to these as "stitchpunk creations," but in the interest of plain English, we're opting for the term doll. Hand-stitched from either burlap or canvas, the dolls have smooth, rounded heads and protuberant eyes; they look like early aviators. They are both homespun and spooky, like the kind of child's toy that might be purchased at an all-organic...
...subtlety.” It’s that Mona-Lisa-smile component that separates the merely good from the eternally memorable. Thousands of people have tried to describe it, but to little—if any—avail. And so the movie “The Burning Plain,” written and directed by the Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, is the latest work to remind us that art and alchemy are not so different. At the risk of seeming to gush, no description will do the film justice. In both script and direction, Arriaga reaches for many...
...Clyburn's own outrage was a bit overdrawn. Just before Wilson's scream, Obama himself had accused his unnamed opponents of offering "a lie, plain and simple." He was responding to the claim by some critics that Obama wanted panels of scientists empowered to deny health care to the ill and infirm, or as the President put it, "to kill off senior citizens." On this point, there is some discussion that could reasonably take place, if people agreed to speak reasonably...
Though slurry doesn't look particularly eco-friendly, aerial firefighting is not environmentally harmful, Upton says - though planes avoid dumps near lakes, streams and other waterways (in especially sensitive areas, tankers drop plain water instead). The Forest Service also advises against allowing pets to swallow the stuff, as with other fertilizers. Still, the retardant poses another, less-publicized hazard, Upton says: to fashion. She's been on the ground as a rain of colored fertilizer falls from the sky: "I've had plenty of pink t-shirts...
...officials agreed to investigate the claims, following on the heels of a parliamentary investigation into the same allegations. That same day, Mousavi visited the cemetery for a memorial to Saeida Agahpour, one of the 28 people said to have been buried here. (See pictures of Tehran's terror in plain clothes...