Word: seale
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...Ethical Treatment of Animals) backing down. Its latest salvo is a video narrated by Chloe designer Stella McCartney (daughter of Paul and Linda) that contains grisly footage of a fox farm in Illinois. And even the most hardened fashion followers are mortified that some designers are using seal fur. The farmers are fighting back, and the Fur Commission of America launched an informative, if slightly defensive, website in July. The FCA contends that the Illinois fox farm was for fox urine for hunters, not fur, and the farmer was a bad apple operating outside its guidelines...
...Biema. "The clergy is very careful in its response, because they represent a challenge but also a tremendous reinvigoration of faith." Although some instances -- such as the apparition at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 -- have entered mainstream doctrine, hundreds more each year fail to win the church's seal of approval. Fowler plans to move to Florida next month. Beatification may have to wait a while...
...most important singer-songwriters in rock. But she doesn't consider herself a folkie; she sees herself somewhere between Miles Davis and Bob Dylan--unclassifiable. She has bebopped with Charles Mingus and explored African rhythms with the warrior drums of Burundi. A record store of younger artists--Seal, Sarah McLachlan, even Janet Jackson--has acknowledged her influence. Virtually every act on the first Lilith Fair owed her a debt, if not royalties. But because she's been so groundbreaking, so musically mercurial, she has not always reaped the critical and commercial rewards she so richly deserves...
...best moment in What Dreams May Come occurs when Max Von Sydow, the great staple of films specializing in theological torment, enters. The actor who challenged Death to a game of chess in The Seventh Seal appears as a Tracker to guide Robin Williams in his journey through hell. The casting of Von Sydow is uncannily perfect, suitably dramatic and humorous at once. Unfortunately, except for Von Sydow, Vincent Ward's film fails to reconcile its diverse tones. What Dreams May Come is a remarkably inconsistent work, failing at a very basic level to present uniform structure and characters...
...Terriers had several chances to seal a victory in the final 15-minute period, but senior goaltender Jen Burney--who replaced Browning in the second half of regulation--was up to the task...