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...child, I was made to look out the window of a moving car and appreciate the beautiful scenery, with the result that now I don't care much for nature. I prefer parks, ones with radios going chuckawaka chuckawaka and the delicious whiff of bratwurst and cigarette smoke...
...there? That is one unsolved mystery in this minimalist spellbinder. But suspense isn't Kiarostami's aim. He is after ordinary rapture, the gentle collision of distant cultures: a schoolboy, Farzad, who befriends the intruder; a girl reciting poetry as she milks a cow in a dark cellar. "Prefer the present!" cries an old man, and this drama, from one of the world's premier film fabulists, makes each moment and movement count. The rhythm of rural life has rarely seemed so lucid and luminous...
Among the active ingredients in the concoction are the amino acid taurine, vitamin B12, sugar and a jolt of caffeine (each 250-ml can has about as much caffeine as a shot of espresso). For added punch, party regulars prefer their Red Bull with vodka or champagne. "It gives you a high, especially when mixed with other substances," says Lauren, 27, a New York City art dealer. "It lets you party all night long." Best of all, it's legal...
...straight CD-to-CD burns but also compilations of songs from three CDs. For example, you could take the three albums John Lennon made with Yoko Ono, program in just the songs you want, and voilà, you have a CD with nothing but Yoko on it (unless you prefer your music original and on-key, in which case you may choose the Lennon tracks...
...trying to help others is very satisfying." He admits, though, that he doesn't know why he likes giving. "Is it your ego, or is it the fact that you've got a warm heart?" he asks rhetorically, grinning. And he doesn't give a damn which answer you prefer...