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...Lamont uninterrupted. As opposed to the inches of slush that usually accompany days at Harvard and keep us inside where we can focus on work, the sun might trick us into taking a break. A trip to Berryline to break up work on a paper would completely derail your train of thought. Aside from the fifteen minutes you would waste walking to and from the store, it would take you at least five minutes to get back into work mode, and you’d even have to root through your bag to find your ID to swipe back into...
...cultural event in decades. American singers shimmied across the stage in tight dresses, belting out Broadway show tunes like "All That Jazz" and "New York." "For years this place was Slumberland," says Sami Zaptia, a Libyan business consultant in Tripoli. "Now everyone wants to get on the Libya gravy train." (See "After 37 Years, the U.S. Arrives to Do Business in Libya...
...hide him from adults. It's a foolproof scheme for picture making: take the plot elements of favorite movies, paint the concoction with bright colors so it looks like the zazziest customized car, set it running at NASCAR speed - then add 3-D - and you have How to Train Your Dragon, the new feature from DreamWorks animation. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...Aboard the Dragon Train Fun is the first of the goals set by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Dragon's directors and (with Will Davies) writers, for their version of the Cressida Cowell book. Their teen hero, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel from She's Out of My League), is the underachieving son of a fierce Viking warlord, Stoick (300's very own Gerard Butler), whose tribe has been battling dragons for centuries. When Hiccup wounds an elusive creature called the Night Fury, no one believes him. Soon he tames, trains and learns to ride the beast, thus schooling...
...Train Your Dragon is a little more serious and more ambitious than the signature DreamWorks films - at least as much an action epic as a cartoon comedy. In its loftier moments, it might almost be called Pixarian. But the movie may simply be a detour for the studio, not the hint of a new direction. After all, in May comes Shrek Forever After, in which, we'd guess, the DreamWorks vaudevillians will cavort again...