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...Authorities in the Chinese capital dispatched thousands of workers to help clear snow-covered roads, putting them to work in temperatures as low as 10°F (-12°C). More than 30 highways were closed in northern China, and a train in the Inner Mongolia region hit a snowbank 6 ft. (2 m) high, trapping its 1,400 passengers overnight. Other parts of North Asia also experienced unprecedented winter storms; Seoul received 11 ft. (3.3 m) of snow, the most it had seen since...
Moore's admirers and detractors alike will recognize his methods in the new film: brisk, pointed synopses of complicated issues (though even a Harvard professor has trouble describing what a derivative is); sad tales of working-class families evicted from their homes because their mortgage rates ballooned; a snowbank of statistics, such as that worker productivity has increased by 45% since 1980 while average real income is stagnant; and pert clips ranging from 1950s instructional films to that YouTube favorite, "Cat Flushing a Toilet Music Video." The material is, as always in Moore movies, efficiently and amusingly marshaled to serve...
...Caram was later spotted standing on a snowbank at the end of the parade route, holding his brass instrument at his side and shouting for Johansson’s attention among a cluster of excited spectators...
...report of a Harvard undergraduate who was assaulted. Officers determined that the two suspects, who were not Harvard affiliates, were still in the Yard, according to HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano. A warrant check turned up negative. The victim reported that the two suspects forcibly pushed him into a snowbank. The victim sustained minor lacerations. Officers issued both parties trespass warnings and sent them on their way. HUPD will assist the victim in pressing charges, Catalano said...
...this is not to say that the production has no good qualities. The set, designed by Sergey Barkhin, is too busy but is creatively employed; a single piece of scenery, such as a large gray drop cloth, variously becomes a bed sheet, a snowbank and hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic...