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From Biarritz, it is a quick trip into the verdant Pyrenees, where one can take advantage of the region's piscatorial plenty. The Nive River in the foothills is home to Atlantic salmon, sea trout and native brown trout--all of which attain exceptional size in this region. Hubert Anglard, 55, a fly-fishing guide, says he has caught brown trout as large as 19 lbs.--but remember, this is a fisherman talking. More typically, une belle truite weighs about...
...wrecked German planes became the painting Totes Meer (Dead Sea, 1940-41). As in the earlier The Shore, the land is on the right, holding back "waves" made up of wings and fuselage. The metal sea, in his characteristic icy green, stretches to low, dark-red hills. In a verdant sky hangs the waning moon. The Battle of Germany (1944) is almost totally abstract. The coastline, as seen from a bomber, is evaporating in multicolored smoke. While bearing witness to events, he remained possessed by the English countryside, recording over and over again the wooded hilltops outside Oxford known...
...English subtitles, but Adoor provides a running translation, whispering the laconic dialogue in my ear. "A film like Shadow Kill demands many viewings to be understood," he says. An antideath-penalty parable with the pacing of a Greek tragedy, Shadow Kill is also visually rich, steeped in the verdant colors of the postmonsoon tropics. A veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer, no doubt, but the consecrated rope he uses to hang his victims also...
...power of the allies, Saddam employed maneuvers that suggest he has learned lessons from the first Gulf War. His military has abandoned the wide open deserts that made its tanks easy targets for U.S. attacks in 1991. Instead the Iraqis have burrowed into the cities and the verdant Euphrates river valley, where U.S. forces have more difficulty spotting them...
...Oslo only like it because of the parts that make them feel like they're not in the city" - so green space takes up acres of Oslo's land. Across the road from the Munch Museum are the University of Oslo's botanical gardens. A stroll along its verdant paths and past the university's museums will bring you to Rodeløkka, a slice of small-town Norway plunked into the heart of the city. The neighborhood's narrow, hilly streets are lined with some of Oslo's best samples of Norwegian village architecture - clapboard cottages in brick reds...