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...certain level this is O.K. Given good lighting and quick cuts, the performers look just fine. But lack of clothes does not necessarily lead to greater truthfulness. Indeed, it can be argued that the tender, fully clothed encounter between Ben Kingsley and Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog tells us something profound about their relationship. The same way with the (also clothed) bathtub embrace between Albert Finney and Jessica Lange in Big Fish. On the other hand, the buck-naked romping of William H. Macy and Maria Bello in The Cooler is just as informative. Their...
...light snow fell, Summers, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Rep. Michael J. Capuano—who sits on the Housing and Urban Development Committee in Washington, D.C.—tossed small piles of sand with shiny shovels to signal the beginning of construction on the Brian J. Honan Apartment Complex...
...vine-covered colonial buildings and winding alleyways. The newer parts of the city attest to the commercial boom that resulted from China's more recent forays into international trade. Seafood is plentiful at the cafés strung along the sun-drenched beach. DUNHUANG Set amid dramatic white sand dunes in the northwestern province of Gansu, Dunhuang was once one of the main stops along the Silk Road. Nearby are some of the finest frescoes in all of China. Created between the 5th and 13th centuries A.D., these works of art, some of which show signs of Greek influence, depict...
...least roads. But all that was really there was sand...
...front turned out to be beside and behind and all around them. There were no antitank weapons, no heavy artillery, just a .50-cal. machine gun that--like the soldier's M-16 rifles--didn't work very well, clogged and jammed with three days' worth of blowing sand. By the time her lost convoy came under fire in the streets of Nasiriyah, Lynch's rifle was about as useful as a hockey stick. The soldiers had been instructed to clean their weapons "anytime we got the chance," Lynch says, "but we never really had a chance...