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...more innocent," says Cutie Honey star Sato, a longtime fan of the heroine she plays. Her director, Anno, takes a crankier view. "Japanese people can't grow up," he says. "When they're not reading comics and watching cartoons, they go to see movies about cartoon characters. It's sad." Whatever the reason, there's no denying the needs of a nation of comic-book nerds?and with a legion of superheroes waiting in the wings, it's a good bet that more of them will be making the leap to real life...
...overregulated mediocrity. Blair has the toughest sales job on the constitution, but he's not the only one. Even Chirac has resisted a referendum, though 74% of French people polled want one. Chirac apparently worries that a referendum could become a low-turnout vehicle for another protest vote. "The sad truth is, our politicians have done little to explain why various European reforms are productive and necessary," says Philippe Moreau-Defarges, senior fellow at the French Institute on Foreign Relations in Paris. "The average French voter has no idea what the proposed constitution is about." He thinks Chirac should embrace...
Comic books can be beautiful. Not just beautiful like touching, sad or poignant - though they can be all those things - but beautiful like an object. This may sound peculiar to some, and understandably so. Comics began as disposable entertainment. Investing the everlasting qualities of beauty into them would have been a waste of time. Only in the last twenty years, particularly these past five or so, have creators begun to explore the idea of the comic as a thing of beauty. With just a little care they can combine art, design and language into an orgiastic menage-a-trois...
...news of Tenet's resignation last week, Rice showed no sign of old rancor. "It's really a great loss," she said Thursday aboard Air Force One. "I'm personally very sad because this has been a great team and it's worked through a lot of really hard issues." The hardest issue may be the one still to come--how to form an intelligence system that can extract high-quality information and analyze it without bowing to anyone's preconceptions. "If any future President asks my advice," Bush told TIME three years ago, "my advice is get to know...
...show tune fueled the pop charts, is by now a dead, or at least obscure, language. (The only song from a recent Broadway musical that anyone outside mid-Manhattan knows is "Karma Chameleon," the old Boy George number woven into his score for the short-lived, lamented "Taboo.") The sad fact is that most people under 60 have put the great old songs out of their head - and, if they hear them, they don't like them. It's as if America took to heart a gag in this years Encores! revival of the 1932 "Pardon My English...