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...rebel peasants' march in Gillo Pontecorvo's Queimada (Burn!) or the several stirring anthems he wrote for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. These are pieces that, as Morricone proved when he played them at a concert this month at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, can stand and soar on their...
...Inflation rate predicted by the International Monetary Fund for Zimbabwe by year's end if prices continue to soar and the government doesn't devalue the currency...
That is precisely why John Galliano's Dior haute couture show in Paris was so spectacular. The designer, who seemed to have been languishing lately under directives to create salable clothes, let his wacky imagination soar again--this time from the couture ateliers of Paris all the way to the cherry-blossom-filled gardens of Kyoto. One after another, models in geisha makeup and with orchids and ikebana arrangements caught up in their hair emerged in glorious confections that recalled hand-painted kimonos, origami folds and even the bark of a bonsai tree. Backstage, the designer described the show...
...million tons of CO2 in 2005, forking out $43 million in the process, seven times the amount spent the previous year. (Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair is ponying up, after coming under pressure to offset his family's New Year travel.) By 2010, that figure could soar to 400 million tons worth up to $5 billion, according to consultancy ICF International...
...migré and bourgeois life. Minghella is a decent-minded filmmaker. And a liberal-minded one too. He wants his characters to emerge morally instructed and reasonably happy. But it's not a lofty goal, and this is a movie that plods while we keep hoping it will soar...