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...Novatris/Harris poll last month, French, Germans and Italians all put "increased cost of living" at the top of the list, ahead of unemployment, security, pensions or immigration. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin recently called "purchasing power" the nation's top priority, and the issue has become the central theme of the presidential election campaign, with candidates on both left and right making a range of expensive promises to boost income for the middle class and the less well-off alike. After several years of wage restraint, unions in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere are pushing for substantial hikes this...
Every fan of spaghetti westerns knows Morricone, at least by ear. And every Metallica fan: the band has used his theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to open its concerts for decades. On the new CD We All Love Ennio Morricone, his music is covered by artists from Bruce Springsteen to Yo-Yo Ma, Céline Dion to Quincy Jones. The Film Forum, Manhattan's top rep house, is mounting a three-week Morricone tribute. At 78, this preposterously prolific composer (the Internet Movie Database lists 505 film and TV scores) is the music...
...documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor who played the Man with No Name. A guy called Clint Eastwood...
...Before FemSex, I thought I could talk about sex and stuff…but I learned that I couldn’t [before taking the course],” one alum said at last week’s meeting. And this seems to be the theme of the course: Almost nothing is left unsaid...
...Cariocas, as the residents of Rio are called, have chosen to go the other way, local instead of international, familial and not corporate. In recent years, thousands of people have set up their own little informal samba schools, known as blocos. Blocos are essentially groups of friends with a theme, a song and a desire to have a good time. Eschewing the formal paraphanelia or costumes of the official samba schools, they meet in public places and then dance around the block behind some music, often a witty samba poking fun at politicians or celebrities. The small ones can expect...