Word: presentism
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This time of year, the salesman goes on the road to showcase his new wares at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. He showed up last week on the Lido, a couple of hundred miles from his vacation villa on Lake Como, both to present his Iraq war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This...
...chocolate. Is there anything Giorgio Armani doesn't design? His latest project is the Cavour220 residences in Rome, housed in six buildings, including a 19th century monastery. Each of the 62 units has a unique floor plan and features materials like travertine and Eramosa limestone to blend past and present...
...concentration was low enough to not constitute a serious fire danger, according to officials at the scene, and the gas company, NSTAR, was present and actively monitoring gas levels soon after the leak was identified...
...concentration was low enough to not constitute a serious fire danger, according to officials at the scene, and the gas company, NSTAR, was present and actively monitoring gas levels soon after the leak was identified...
...will not pretend that I alone know what “defines” Michelle Obama, but the point is that the media should present her as she is rather than paint her as some post-Camelot American queen. If we are still to be barraged with news about the First Lady—and I’m not sure we should be—then, instead of the outfits, let us see the truth...