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...then there are dumb movies. Making slapstick, the lowest form of humor, successful requires enormous skill and talent. Rowan Atkinson's character, Mr. Bean, whose inspired idiocy traces a direct descent from Charlie Chaplin, infuses new intelligence into unintelligent comedy. It's really too bad that such a well-wrought dumb character finds himself in such a stock dumb movie...
...exterior of the houses, building services will work to stop water penetration, which can damage slate roofs, chimneys, gutters and copper joints. Much of the stonework on House facades is being remortered and sanded, and workers will repair the wrought iron gates and fences along the river...
...return to the house, just as he was opening the ornate wrought-iron gate, Versace was approached suddenly by a white man in his mid-20s. Some witnesses described an ambush-style killing in which the attacker pumped one bullet into Versace's head from behind, then another as he fell to the ground. But two other witnesses, who were later questioned by FBI agents, have told TIME that first Versace appeared to struggle briefly with his attacker over a bag. "The next thing I know, I heard pow, pow, and I ducked on the ground," says Romeo Jacques...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...
...this area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles and Shirley Warner come in to buy their grandchild a swing set and walk out with $476 worth of green wrought-iron furniture. "I don't do this much, but my work is good," says Charles, who toils nearby at the huge Mead Fine Paper plant. In March, Orem sold every bag of Easter candy he ordered. That wasn't supposed to happen. Since then, flowers are up 15%; shoes...