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Apparently Sylvain Chomet didn't get the news. The French comic-strip artist spent five years making Les Triplettes de Belleville (also known as Belleville Rendez-vous), about an old woman who raises her grandson to be a Tour de France champion. There's a dog, some bike-napping mafiosi and three old chanteuses whose diet consists entirely of frogs they catch by tossing hand grenades into a nearby stream. Vous guessed it by now: Triplettes is terrific...
...bidding on eBay for Asian art. In the fall of my freshman year, however, my mother developed a more dangerous obsession: nightly trips to petfinder.com to seek out dogs in need of rescue. Pippi, as we named our Kansas City rescue, was found abandoned and meandering in the median strip of a highway in Missouri, and soon became my mother’s newest surrogate child...
...another's laps. Space for a dance floor had been cleared between sprawling limbs, and a corpulent, velvet-bedecked woman gyrated to a popular Bollywood tune. When she tired, she was replaced by a girl whose undulating hips and gaudy makeup would not have been amiss in a strip joint. These were not the demure, burqa'd women I'd expected to meet in Afghanistan...
...audience members who don’t keep their radio stations tuned to KISS may quickly find the dances tiresome. Nevertheless, some of these dances are strikingly effective; in the dramatization of Gretchen’s fall from spotless maid to teenage mother, the minions torment her, and then strip her from a frock down to a short, sexy black dress, after which she joins them and becomes their lead dancer...
...difference between us and George Bush is one of vision. Where we see an unspoiled wilderness or a scenic coast, George Bush sees an oil field. Where we see a beautiful mountaintop, George Bush sees a strip mine. Where we see an intact old growth forest, George Bush sees toothpicks. And where we see an opportunity to join the global community to fight global warming, George Bush sees a chance to curry favor with his buddies in the oil business...