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...addition to Jeunet's deft touch behind the camera, Amélie Poulain benefits from an appealing cast. Audrey Tautou, who won the César-France's top film award-for best new actress last year, gives a heart-melting performance as Amélie. Mathieu Kassovitz, writer and director of the acclaimed 1995 film La Haine, is also disarming as the wholesome sex shop cashier who steals Amélie's heart-and challenges her to tend to her own happiness as well as others'. If, like his heroine, Jeunet gets a kick out of making people feel...
...With tunes by the Beatles, the Who and the Rolling Stones forming a ubiquitous soundtrack, "Les Années Pop" is not so much an art exhibition as what in the '60s was called a happening. The sheer three-dimensionality of it - Christo's plastic-wrapped bicycle, César's compressed automobiles, Claes Oldenburg's Store with its huge floppy pie and ice-cream cone, the aluminum-foil recreation of Andy Warhol's Factory - signals that this is a show to be experienced rather than just observed. Similarly, the inclusion of consumer products - from Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian...
...Foreign Devils comes alive when Holdsworth finds subjects whose lives were changed by Hong Kong, such as Stacy Mosher, an American who arrived "during that golden period when Hong Kong was no longer a colony and not yet an SAR," changed from teacher to journalist and married a Chinese political publisher. Not every expat was as galvanized by Hong Kong as Mosher, but there were enough to make Foreign Devils more than mere nostalgia...
...near the radiation source is to the phantom and just where it is pointed. Yet there is no agreed-upon method for conducting these tests--an astonishing omission that the IEEE and its European counterpart hope to remedy this year. "Until there is a single, uniform measuring standard for SAR tests," says Nokia's Stoneham, manufacturers "won't use safety as a marketing issue or competitive element...
...look at its mostly laissez-faire stance toward the cell-phone industry. A General Accounting Office probe is under way, requested last year by two Democrats, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, that is examining such issues as the basis for the 1.6 W/kg SAR standard and the proper role of federal agencies in regulating safety. Says Markey: "It's time that significant public money be devoted to studying the possible health effects of cell-phone...