Word: plaines
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...stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors. "It may be a reaction against clean white modernism," says Marco Pasanella, a New York City?based interior designer, "but it's also about enjoying the richness and elegance and just plain beauty of these objects...
...with the sensible. Chrysler teamed up with celebrity chef Bobby Flay to introduce its all-new 2008 Town Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans. Apparently Chrysler wanted to convey the idea that it's cooking up something spicier than dull minivans. And while they still do look pretty plain, Chrysler's new vans have some cool interior features, like seats that swivel 180 degrees and a removable table that fits between the second and third rows...
...also plain to see last week that Bush's new approach on Iraq - if it can be called that - will include a diplomatic push by Secretary of State Condi Rice, aimed not at Iran and Syria, as the Baker Hamilton commission proposed, but at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How sustained an effort this is likely to be is unknowable. Nor is there any word yet on what the Bush team plans to do about the political situation inside Iraq. It appears that the new Bush military strategy is likely to look a lot like the old, only more...
...therefore a pleasure to say something nice about Venus, in which lanky, scrawny, Peter O'Toole, playing an aging actor named Maurice, just plain refuses to acknowledge the fact that he's not feeling so hot. He keeps working such modest jobs as come his way, keeps ragging on his pal Ian (Leslie Phillips), who is less sickly, but more prone to aches, pains and complaints, and mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from...
...gets itself going on a comparatively upbeat acoustic riff, until Rice mentions death and promptly squelches any optimism the listener may still possess. The second half of “Me, My Yoke and I” actually ascends to the level of rocking then comes off as just plain scary without a counterbalance to its six minutes of screechy anguish and unmitigated emotional hell...