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...cooking with gas. Forget Cate, Nicole or any of the other expected hopefuls - Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, an eccentric Polish migrant with pallid skin and ears protruding like Duchamp urinals, is Australia's unlikeliest Oscar contender. Last month the fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome...
...Resource Efficiency Program (REP) worked with Harvard Recycling and Waste Management to bring 75 pounds of nail polish, makeup and assorted toiletries to the Cambridge Family Shelter in the YWCA in Central Square...
...femininity down the runway, Kawakubo left many in the audience perplexed by presenting models in voluminous skirts cut from traditional Japanese fabrics. Instead of blouses, they wore sheer swaths of tulle over bare breasts. Even Kawakubo's perfumes defy convention. Odeur 53, created in 1998, has notes of nail polish and burnt rubber. The idea was to express smells that nobody would recognize...
...proposition for everyone, not just the three of us. But clearly if we can agree, others can." So far, the excluded countries seem largely reassured. "I don't see any reason for anxiety, as long as their initiatives serve the European Union," says Boguslaw Majewski, spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The other big force tugging on the Franco-German-British triangle is their own jockeying - especially across the English Channel. "The British have been overplaying the significance of this meeting for logical reasons," sniffs the Chirac aide. "They want to be seen as playing a bigger role...
It’s important to note that barreling right into exams would in no way harm students. Most classes here are graded with a curve, and any evaluation depends on other students’ performance; you wouldn’t be able to polish outlines and finish copious note-taking, but neither would anyone else...