Word: sisterly
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...that reportedly includes Gerard Depardieu, Steven Spielberg, and Robert de Niro. In addition to turning in problem sets and hanging out with friends, Poilâne monitors her company’s production via phone and e-mail from her dorm room in Mather. She recently enlisted her younger sister Athena, currently a design student in New York, to help out with the complete re-design of the company’s signature bread bags. Poilâne describes her devotion to her bread as “extremely passionate,” and takes pride in her active role...
...departure from my semester abroad in Chile, Augusto Pinochet, the country’s ex-dictator, died. My host sister called it the best farewell the country could have given...
...Watching your precious kid sister get killed and eaten might well turn you into a psychopath who kills and eats people. The argument is plausible: the bitten becomes the biter, and takes his revenge by making sure the biters get bit. Plausible, yes, but a lot less interesting than the grownup spectacle of the super-Mensa, super-crazy Hannibal in the first two books...
...Harris has transformed Hannibal into a variation on the standard action hero: the solo commando, escaping from more confrontations with mean, tough, armed men than Schwarzenegger and Van Damme in their prime. He is also the standard movie detective, sleuthing clues as to the whereabouts of his sister's killers. Indeed, he has assumed here the role of the real heroes of Red Dragon and Silence - he's the detective and the villains are the original cannibals. Like Will Graham or Clarice Starling, he's tracking them down, slipping into their crafty minds and trying not to be killed...
Independent film fans need no introduction to Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax and its sister company, Dimension. From small, intimate films like sex, lies and videotape and The Crying Game to flashy game-changers including Pulp Fiction and the $300 million-grossing Chicago, the Weinsteins proved smart little pictures (as well as smart big ones) could find a wide audience if promoted properly. After leaving longtime corporate parent The Walt Disney Co. last year, the provocative pair have struck out on their own once more with a new boutique media concern simply called The Weinstein Company...