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...Jeffrey Lyons). It?s also true that some websters have devoted their life to watching movies and can put their informed prejudices into words. I can heartily recommend the essays on Bergman, Bresson, Bunuel and other demanding European auteurs in Gregory and Maria Pearse?s Truth-in-Cinema Quest site and the panoramic considerations of themes in Chinese movies on Peter Nepstad?s The Illuminated Lantern. And I?m agreeably flummoxed by the attention ladled onto the 175 films made by Spanish bad-film auteur Jesus Franco. Tim Lucas? overview is almost enough to force me to watch, again...
...quest to explain the Cambrian Explosion, Knoll, now a professor at Harvard, has had to probe deeply into the so-called Proterozoic, the poorly understood era that started 2.5 billion years ago and ended about 2 billion years later. Thanks in no small measure to Knoll's pioneering efforts, scientists are finally beginning to appreciate how very strange that long interval of time was. For in addition to finding and describing a multitude of fossils that came from that era, Knoll has also managed to flesh out the evolutionary context in which those fossils appeared...
...darker Kennedy storylines that Ethel's unruly boys often followed, with their recklessness and substance abuse. There was a lost quality to affable, flaky Max. He told interviewer Matt Bai that in reading the 1958 psychoanalytical text The Quest for Identity, he saw himself...
...quest drew him to Bobby. He became curator of R.F.K.'s papers and pored over his father's book collection to see which parts had been underlined. Eventually, he compiled Bobby's best speeches and favorite passages into a book, Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. "Obviously, this project is an attempt to make whole a part of myself," he told the Palm Beach Post. But Max insisted he was not interested in bearing the weight of his father's legacy. "Carrying the torch?" he said. "That...
...Skin lighteners are big business in Africa. Women - and some men - across the continent have long used creams and potions to make their skin a few shades lighter in the belief that it makes them more attractive. But the quest for beauty carries a heavy price. Many of the most popular creams contain hydroquinone, which can cause irreversible skin damage and even lead to skin cancer. Some creams also contain potentially lethal mercury, banned in cosmetics since the 1970s. But the creams remain as popular as ever despite government prohibitions in a dozen African countries. "As long as there...