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LONDON: Who died and made the Guinness Book of Records the great sage of age? Jeanne Calment, that's who. When the 122-year-old record holder died in France this month, the world's most famous record book held a stony silence on who the successor to the "world's oldest" title would be. Today they announced the winner: Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, a 116-year-old native of Quebec, whose birth certificate is stamped...
...entertaining ancient-world episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is unlikely too that Hercules, played by the Fabio-coiffed Kevin Sorbo as a guy who appears to have lost his way back from spring break, would ever utter the words "war without purpose is madness," as a sage in Roar manages to do early on. Hercules and Xena are filled instead with intentionally corny one-liners...
...phone one morning at the Gunnison County, Colo., ranch where her husband Duane has been raising cattle since 1958, she is happy to find a former student on the line. But the caller isn't interested in idle talk. Like so many people in the area--a remote sage-and-wildflower valley--the student is in real estate now. She tells Donna that a client from Texas wants to spend $105,000 on a 35-acre "ranchette" of undeveloped land. Would the Phelpses be interested in selling part of their 508-acre spread...
...truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on the hillside. While Duane tours the scene in his pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity...
...more like another American visionary, Edgar Allan Poe--so overwrought, yet so influential. Though Ryder was never (in his own view) a Modernist, a succession of American artists from Marsden Hartley to Jackson Pollock and beyond would look up to him as an emblem of aesthetic purity, a holy sage...