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...course, Winslet would rather be acting onscreen, which is, she says, "the one thing that I do for myself" - and lately the thing she has been doing better than just about anyone else. In an industry that insists that most actresses remain giggly, pliable and princessy well into middle age, Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader...
Winslet's attraction to those roles is something of a mystery even to her. "It's a funny thing," she says. For a few seconds, her articulate, free-associative, appealingly profane conversational style deserts her. "I almost ... don't know. If I had a therapist, I'm sure they would identify it. Clearly, it's not coincidental. Do I feel trapped? No, not at all. Have I experienced feelings of serious entrapment in my life? Absolutely, yes, without question - and I haven't known that I was trapped until it's all come crashing down. And only then have...
...would love to have many more people there. But the store is kind of nomadic too. We change the theme. One day it's children, one day it's Africa, sometimes it's furniture or it's art. Because it's so small we can celebrate many different thing. It's like a journey because it takes you away from the mundane idea of what is retail...
...three centers have been thinking in recent years about ways to weave themselves back into the cities they serve. But it's no easy thing. Following on the excitement created by Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, which was added to the L.A. Music Center in 2003, Los Angeles endorsed the $3 billion Grand Avenue Project. That's a developer's proposal for Gehry-designed condos, shops, restaurants and a hotel, plus a 16-acre (6.5 hectare) park, all in the general vicinity of the center. But ground-breaking is on hold until the developer, Related Urban, can secure...
...Indeed, the only thing falling faster than Japanese industrial output is Aso's popularity, which according to a recent Nippon Television survey has sunk to a 9.7% approval rate, the worst for a Japanese Prime Minister since 2001. Even fellow LDP stalwart Junichiro Koizumi, the influential former Prime Minister, has publicly criticized Aso's blunders, calling them "appalling" and "laughable." Nakagawa's Yeltsin-like meltdown "is one more nail in Aso's coffin," says Robert Dujarric, director at Temple University's Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies. "It shows that he's incompetent and so is his administration...