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...dedicated and well trained, and has access to leading experts and all the high-tech gadgetry a cop could want. Ask Boyer to show you his team's most effective weapon against art crime, and he'll sit you down in front of a computer. The Thésaurus de Recherche Electronique et d'Imagerie en Matière Artistique (Electronic Research and Image Thesaurus for Artistic Material), a.k.a TREIMA, is the OCBC's stolen-art database, one of only two national databases like it in the world. Italy has one, called Leonardo; other countries either have only city-specific...
...talk-o-saurus Larry King has nominated the man he thinks could take over the reins: Ryan Seacrest, the well-coiffed host of American Idol. "He's the classic generalist," King tells the NEW YORK TIMES. "The only thing I don't know ... is how versed he is in politics, world affairs. Does he read the paper? Is he interested in Iraq? Because if he is, he's going to be very good." SCORE...
Cria. Film critic David Denby writes a sensitive and intriguing analysis of this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view...
Cria. Film critic David Denby writes a sensitive and intriguing analysis of this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view...
...animals from one continent that were identical to those on another, even though they are separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Just off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for example, an Ohio State University expedition recently discovered the fossilized bones of a hippopotamus-like reptile called Lystro-saurus that had been thought to live only in prehistoric South Africa and Asia...