Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that first glimpse, Hawass returned last spring to lead what he calls the largest expedition ever undertaken in Egypt--and deservedly so. The richness of the find and the tombs' unprecedented state of preservation have astounded archaeologists, some of whom have compared it to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Even Tut's burial chamber had been partly looted, however. These tombs appear to have remained undisturbed since they were sealed some 2,000 years ago--more than 1,300 years after Tut, at a time when Egypt and much of the Middle East was part...
...proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart) can't add much shading or power. Steve Martin is here for muted comic relief, but don't expect to hear him sing King Tut. Any sort of irreverence would be out of place in this by-the-Book rendition. Nonetheless, it is missed...
...listen to the naysayers and skeptics, the professional doom-mongers and moralizing tut-tutters; this is still a great country, and Paula Jones has proved it to be so. There was a time when only domestic fat cats and foreign tyrants could bring a presidency to the brink of destruction. But Paula Jones has democratized the calculus of scandal. She earned $12,000 working for something called the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission--surely the bureaucratic equivalent of the Maytag repair service. One spring day, as she manned a registration desk at a conference, fate brought her into the line...
Unlike King Tut and other high-profile mummies, however, they'll never suffer the indignity of being put on display. The French team has already returned the bodies to their resting places. And given the remote location, it seems unlikely they will ever be removed again...
...satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions can't keep the film from proceeding at a geriatric pace...