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...directing spent in Paris and Austin, Texas, where Malick now lives. Nothing is known of the motivations for his time off or how he spent it, but his self-imposed exile prepared him for a triumphant return in 1998 with the World War II drama “The Thin Red Line,” which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture...
...mothers were asked about their concerns towards their own weight and the weight of their children. The researchers found that 33 percent of girls and eight percent of boys were concerned about their weight and wanted to be thinner. Girls who thought that their mothers wanted them to be thin were two to three times more likely to worry about losing weight. According to Field, the findings confirm the influence of parents’ words and actions on their children’s attitude toward body image. “While it’s less likely that parents...
...only people whose credibility is at stake are people trying to invent issues out of thin air." STEVE SCHMIDT, White House spokesman, on Democrats questioning the integrity of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after a 1985 memorandum surfaced last week in which Alito spells out his strategy for "overruling Roe v. Wade," which safeguards the rights of women in the U.S. to have an abortion...
However sanguine the majority of Iraqis feel, patience with the U.S. occupation seems to be wearing thin. Nearly 60% of respondents said the U.S. and its allies have done a bad job carrying out their responsibilities in Iraq, while 65% said they oppose the troops' presence in the country. But almost everyone agrees on the nation's No. 1 priority: improving public security...
...birds, he turns each location into an artful landscape, each image into a snapshot of a new world. So the meeting of Englishman John Smith and Algonquian princess Pocahontas is a fit subject for Malick--just his fourth film in 32 years, after Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line...