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...seemed locked in a taut two-man battle for Documentary Feature until My Architect quietly reaped enough attention to bestow it front-runner status. The Return of the King will likely sweep up most of the technical awards as Best Picture forerunners are prone to do, but the vivid restoration of 19th century Japan in The Last Samurai will give it a run for its money in Art Direction and Costume...
...dawn on a January morning, and the sky is streaked vivid pink as a team from the state?s Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment heads into state forest bordering the Wilderness World Heritage Area in Tasmania?s rugged Central Highlands. The logging road crosses the Nive River, running silver in the early light, and winds among snow gums covered in creamy blossoms. Plenty of ground cover makes this perfect devil country, home to a daily smorgasbord of wallabies and other treats. That?s why Mooney, scientific officer Billie Lazenby and conservation officer Andry Sculthorpe are here, hoping...
...bouncy “Number One Son,” an album standout that keeps with the theme of precious childhood love. This creates a pleasing balance with the weighty “Your Picture,” a dark Leonard Cohen-like dirge, which strikes out a vivid character sketch: “She told me you’d given up drinking / to be with somebody you knew / and you tried to get into the Bible / But it never got into you.” John Henderson sings here with vocals of the same cut as Campbell?...
...acted without the army's knowledge, the proliferation scandal also raises the issue of whether military rule is desirable in Pakistan. I have for most of my life despised the idea of dictatorship, of citizens being told what is right for them by an unelected, unaccountable body. I have vivid memories, even a decade and a half later, of the disastrous policies initiated by General Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s, policies of Islamization, of news broadcasts in Arabic, intimidation of journalists, oppression of women...
...used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back ... It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else." PAUL O'NEILL, former Treasury Secretary, on statements in the new book The Price of Loyalty, in which he characterized President Bush's behavior in economic-policy meetings as "a blind man in a room full of deaf people...