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...their old movie selves (though I did not, darn it, spot a white piano). OK, Andrea has to do a lot of demeaning fetching and carrying, but in return she gets to wear lots of swell outfits, go to A-list parties and flirt with devastating immoralists. In that somewhat limited sense, the movie is, I think, a triumph. And I feel ungrateful - even a little ashamed - that the dour side of me wanted kept wanting Andrea to seal her pact with the smartly shod devil and go straight to hell. That's for another picture - one that...
...going to...I hate to say ‘teach a course at Harvard,’” Kinsley somewhat sheepishly told Newsweek this month, leaving journalism wonks and web geeks cheering on the banks of the Charles...
...become somewhat of a newspaper nomad of late, hop-scotching from Slate to the Los Angeles Times and now to the Guardian...
...extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken out of the country, overseas Indians, the most lavish patrons of art, have avoided buying her works. All that changed in March, when an Indian businessman bought Sher-Gil's Village Scene...
...after the Maine went down, on a late Friday afternoon when Long was temporarily out of the office, his dynamic assistant cabled instructions to Admiral William T. Sampson in the Caribbean and Commodore George Dewey in Hong Kong to prepare for decisive action. Long, though by his own account somewhat bemused, did nothing later to counter those orders. So when Congress declared war on Spain on April 25, the U.S. squadrons in both theaters had been heavily reinforced. The results--the destruction of the Spanish fleets in Manila Bay and, two months later, off Santiago, Cuba--were decisive. Spain...