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...their third album, Irvin Mayfield and Bill Summers lead Los Hombres in a new direction, or many at once. New Congo Square was recorded in five countries and features a trailer load of guests, from Kermit Ruffins and the Rebirth Brass Band to members of Burning Spear...
However, at 79 minutes, the album may have benefited from more thorough editing. “Jah Rastafari” almost seems a parody of Burning Spear, and Summers’ R&B hit “Call It What You Want” was probably best left...
...American theatergoers but that producers considered a necessity. "We're not trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People say to me, You're a serious actress playing an action movie," she says. "But this is the hardest thing I've ever done...
...symbolize the transience of pleasure and earthly life. And then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed presence is palpable in Manets like the Bunch of Asparagus, 1880, with its almost miraculous rendering of the blue tips of the asparagus spears. (It sold, fresh off the easel, to a collector named Charles Ephrussi. Manet felt he had been paid too generously, and with his usual wit he sent Ephrussi a tiny painting of a single asparagus spear, with a note: "This one was missing from your bunch...
...works eight-hour days] he's the only manager I know who does," says Assistant Professor of Business Administration Steven Spear...