Word: specializing
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...over the span of five decades behind the camera. Perhaps the single most striking image of his career is that of a steamboat being pushed and pulled through a dense Peruvian jungle, from his 1982 epic, Fitzcarraldo - a physical feat that was filmed on location without the aid of special effects. It was a virtuoso climax to an all-but-impossible film shoot - a two-year journey into the jungle that found Herzog drained of funds, battling the elements and stuck in the cross fire of a border war. As his personal form of therapy, Herzog meticulously recorded his experiences...
...this miniature handwriting - it was really microscopic - and after 20 or 30 pages, I just stopped. A few years ago, my wife Lena encouraged me to go at it, and all of a sudden it fell into place easily. I could read it, though of course I needed some special magnifying glasses...
...Damascus Engaging Syria U.S. officials confirmed that the Obama Administration will attempt to mend frayed ties with Syria by appointing an ambassador to the pivotal Middle Eastern state after a four-year hiatus. Analysts say the gambit, which follows special envoy George Mitchell's visit to Syria earlier in June, is intended to soothe regional tensions and combat Iranian influence. The U.S. had withdrawn its ambassador after the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a crime many suspected Syrian intelligence officials of orchestrating...
...sold some 20 million copies, this fantasy of an alternative Japanese history imagines that the lines and pictures scrawled by a club of kids in the '70s has become the Book of Prophesies by a cult whose leader, known only as Friend, takes power many years later. The special effects are rudimentary, but the churning of plot, and the richness of character and detail, keep you glued. One prophesy - that "The satanic salesmen will destroy the world" - might have referred to the Wall Street sharpies who crippled the world economy last fall, after the first two movies were made...
...Palin's book is slated for release in time for Mother's Day 2010. In addition to the trade edition, there will be a special version for the Christian market under HarperCollins' Zondervan imprint. Her editor is Adam Bellow, son of the late novelist Saul Bellow. Palin and Bellow have already huddled in person, and the book is under way. (TIME photographs: Sarah Palin...