Word: potente
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...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it?as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
...others and moved her to start collecting stories. For the next several years--starting out in her home state of Colorado--she toted a laundry basket of old aprons everywhere she went. She invited strangers to touch them and talk to her. Like Proust's madeleine, the aprons prompted potent memories. After Geisel met portrait photographer Kristina Loggia, a project evolved. "The Apron Chronicles" is now an exhibit traveling throughout the country (to find out where, go to apronchronicles.com) It combines Geisel's collected testimonies and Loggia's vivid portraiture to create a poetry of the familiar. With stories that...
SMOKE 'EM OUT The U.S. is fuming as BC Bud, a potent strain of marijuana, flows across the border from Canada...
...year, nearly double the 26,000 lbs. it retrieved in 2002, according to a U.S. State Department report. There have been seizures all along the border, in Montana, North Dakota, Michigan, Ohio and other states. Canadian pot has cachet in the U.S. because of its reputation for being especially potent. The featured brand is BC Bud--which is grown in British Columbia and has become synonymous with the high-grade marijuana grown throughout Canada. Once in the U.S., the pot is exchanged for cash, and sometimes cocaine or guns, which are then smuggled back to Canada...
...impassioned freedom fighting. But the pre-revolutionary Motorcycle Diaries calls for naïveté, not intensity, and slowly dawning certainty instead of fervent resolution. Bernal isn't the hunky, smoldering Che; he's the thoughtful, awkward Ernesto - and he's splendid, though he doesn't radiate a potent sensuality the way he did as a scheming transvestite in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education. Instead, his Guevara is all goofy charm and dissolving innocence (more like his character in 2001's Y Tu Mamá También, but without the sex). His weapon is his wide, crooked...