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...outdoor adventurer - even while heading up Esprit, he would regularly disappear for months-long trips to the forests of South America - so when he burned out in the corporate world, Tompkins took his fortune, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and began steadily buying acre after acre of threatened virgin forest in Chile. But he met with considerable resistance from the Chilean government and media: the idea of a rich gringo going down to South America to protect nature, not exploit it, seemed so absurd to post-Pinochet Chileans that they suspected Tompkins was up to something...
...Hope didn't beat up criminals or woo ladies, and likewise, Rudd, who at 5 ft. 10 somehow projects 5 ft. 6, has found the perfect expression of his charming, nonthreatening slyness in the buddy comedy. After playing a lot of leading men's friends (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and nice guys embraced by leading women after they've come to their senses (Friends, Clueless), Rudd has graduated to playing the lead. He did it in last year's Role Models with Seann William Scott, and he's doing it again in I Love You, Man with...
...organ of sexual mutilation is particularly engaging. His examination of 15th century Nuremberg reveals that the cutting of one’s nose was most often associated to adultery, homosexuality, and other sex crimes. The nose was also supposed to reveal whether or not a woman was still a virgin, based on the thickness of her cartilage. Anecdotes like this, revealing a common and fascinating trend in the medieval understanding and cultural depiction of the body, provide much of the book’s worth, which ultimately resides in Groebner’s masterful knowledge of the mores...
...moth • In an ultrasound (creepy) • In some salsa • On a grape • In a cellphone pic • On a turtle shell • In a vat of spumoni ice cream • We didn't even mention the man who's convinced that he can see the Virgin Mary in the leg wound likely suffered when he fell off his bar stool ("You can actually almost see her holding the baby Jesus...
...Indeed, this seems to be the underlying sentiment of all the characters. An education being the only sure way to leave the dirty streets, the perceived helplessness of her position can only be explained by the stalemate on progress that tradition has caused. Likenesses of the Virgin Mary coexist alongside portraits of nude women; “Fucking relatives!” yells Nanay Flor when she hears the news of Merly’s pregnancy, but responsibility makes disowning her family as unthinkable an option as abortion.Mendoza clearly displays the complex layout of the theatre and of the characters?...