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...decades, horror movies have been R-rated snuff cartoons with severed limbs and buckets of blood. The Freddy and Jason films and the Chainsaw Massacres appeal to the connoisseurs of special-effects gore. Every item is laid out for you to see, like the carcasses in a butcher's window...
...opened a window into troubles at the high-flying studio, launched in a blaze of publicity in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. The IPO filing reveals that DreamWorks' animation division lost more than $350 million over the past five years. It also warns of a litany of potential pitfalls, from the studio's meager slate of big-budget films to its undersized library of movies from which to generate cash during lean years...
That is about the easiest thing to imagine in the lives of the eight cloistered sisters of the Carmelite Monastery at Goonellabah, near Lismore, in northern New South Wales, who can be seen only through a grilled window in the reception area. It's into this modest room, watched over by old black-and-white photographs of St. Teresa of the Andes, that Sisters Bernadette, Veronica, Antoinette and Maria come in turn, each shedding a little more light on an existence which Sister Veronica herself can imagine outsiders wondering about: "I've been passing the monastery for five years. What...
...over millions of years, (to rely) on animals and plants that are perfectly attuned to this land, that are used to drought . . . kangaroos need a third as much water as sheep. So Riversleigh has become much more than we ever anticipated. It's not only the treasure chest and window into all things wonderful and ancient; it's (a warning) to change the way we're utilizing Australia to ensure this wonderful, uniquely Australian story continues to unfold." In the meantime, exploration at Riversleigh will continue. The palaeontologists stress that they've only tinkered at the edges of the area...
...whose dress is an up-to-the-minute bias-cut number. Lempicka's portraits aren't just fashion plates, though - she recorded her sitters' idiosyncratic personalities and features, cropping the image closely so that the figure and its costume fill the frame, sometimes leaving a small high window for a distorted view of fantasy skyscrapers right out of the 1927 German movie Metropolis. In 1939, she and her second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date...