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...intelligence so Maureen Dowd twists the attack in a slightly different way. Bush is not just stupid; he’s also uncultured. When the President visited Paris last May, Dowd wrote that he accentuated his uncivilized caricature by “acting like a rodeo rider in King Louis’s court.” Other reporters covering Bush’s trips to Europe have noted, in the midst of news stories, that Bush struggles through stately European dinners because they begin at his normal bedtime. Apparently no one remembers that Bush peppers many of his speeches...
...film on view, was Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
...different sort when Sheik Ahmed bin Mohammed al Maktoum, son of the crown prince, Sheik Mohammed, became the family's first winning jockey. The 16-year-old prince rode his American-bred Bowman to first place in the endurance championship at the World Equestrian Games. Horse and rider overcame 160 km of difficult country - made so treacherous by torrential rain that dozens of horses pulled up and two died of exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi and Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send...
...flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house and garden have become hallucinatory. Expressionism's second group, originally based in Munich, was made up of the Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the German Franz Marc and the circle around their one-issue journal, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). As the journal's name hints, this artist group was concerned with the romantic and mystical. The collection's seven paintings by Kandinsky show him unshackling color from objects as he invents abstract art. But before quite doing so, he painted Angel of the Last Judgment (1911), in which...
...tested for drugs throughout the year and has always been clean, has nevertheless faced suspicion that given his domination of a drug-tainted sport, he must be illegally boosting his performance. And so he was heckled with cries of "Dopé!" as he chased France's Richard Virenque, a rider who confessed to using performance...