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...their new subjects. How these foreign rulers used Chinese tradition, culture and ritual to consolidate their vast empire is a principal theme of the show and is illustrated with 400 objects, most the Emperors' own treasures, on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City. Some items reveal facets of their personalities; others are designed to create imperial images that would promote their subjects' fealty. So important were the artworks in buttressing the family's right to rule that Qianlong inspected them all at draft stage. The Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked...
When Fitzgerald said Libby was the first known Administration official to reveal Plame's name to a reporter, Woodward called his source, he says, and noted the timing of their conversation. "My source then said he or she had no alternative but to go to the prosecutor," he says. "I said, 'If you do, am I released [from our confidentiality agreement]?'" According to Woodward, the source said yes, but only to talk to Fitzgerald about the conversation, not to reveal the source's name publicly. Woodward has refused to say publicly who the source is but notes that "the process...
...they shuffle one-by-one into the Beverly Hills Four Seasons conference room, the four stars of “The Ice Harvest” reveal their personas—before they’ve even uttered a word. Oliver Platt (“The West Wing”) makes the splashiest entrance, answering his cell phone (“It’s my agent”) and fussily heading to grab some water bottles from the courtesy table. Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), all business, makes a bee-line for her chair, though her presence...
...tension from the film’s darker scenes.Stephen Goldblatt’s murky and colorless photography won’t be winning any awards either. Because one of the central characters (Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist that would reveal the movie to be “his” documentary of his and his friends’ lives—that at least would explain the enterprise’s amateur production value.A few of the film’s scenes do succeed: The “Santa Fe?...
...customers.“Our customers told us that what we served wasn’t what they thought of as wraps,” Pepper said. “Wraps are cold, deli meat sandwiches that are frankly uninspiring. The name The Wrap didn’t reveal what we really do.”Pepper said he believes the name Boloco will better represent the restaurant as a whole, both in its products and clientele.“The name has a bit of a Latin flair with ‘loco,’ reflecting what...