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...Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences in almost every foreign country prefer Hollywood movies to their own: because ours are bigger, slicker - movie...
...SILVER POLISH...
Some products have a lucrative rub-off effect. A supermarket-strategy firm found that shoppers who buy silver polish tend to spend more than $200 a trip. So even though it's a low-turnover product, shelving experts keep it around...
...people can build such warmth among themselves so swiftly." It's a statement (by another London-based writer originally from someplace else) Afolabi has chosen as the epigraph for Goodbye Lucille - an epigraph that highlights the heartening capacity for connection in unexpected places. "I have Polish friends and Ghanaian friends and Indian friends," says Afolabi, "friends across the spectrum. I read the other day that the largest ethnic group in London was mixed-race children. I was pretty gobsmacked, and encouraged as well. I hope that's the future...
...world of astronomy, the venerated Polish-born theoretical astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski was a renegade, forever proposing ideas dubbed outlandish by colleagues. Yet Paczynski changed the way we look at the sky. In the 1980s he refined a technique called microlensing, allowing scientists a more textured view of the galaxy. In the '90s he and a team of Polish researchers established a sweeping--and ongoing--project to capture all celestial activity and record rare events like killer asteroids. He was 67 and had brain cancer...