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...Narrative has never been Zhang's strong suit, and Daggers' plot meanders like the Yellow River. Kaneshiro and Lau play police officers for a corrupt imperial government and are charged with eliminating a mysterious rebel group called the House of Flying Daggers, which derives its name from its members' knuckleball-like throwing knives, which dance and weave toward their targets. The pair concoct an elaborate plan to use a blind bar girl (Zhang Ziyi) as rebel bait, and Zhang, a trained ballerina, shows off her skills in a dance sequence that turns into an elegant, then vicious, duel...
...Norling and catch up with other artists. As grinning barefoot toddlers tug at the visitor's clothes for attention, Long spreads a glowing acrylic painting on the floor. "This is where the star man came down," she says, her hand passing gently over a path of pink and yellow dots falling from a half-moon into the crater, which is viewed, as landscapes are in many Aboriginal paintings, as if from above. "He went in here," she says, jabbing at a blue dot slightly off-center. And though the ancient people who first told this story could never have known...
...Tour de France has filled you with dreams of chasing the yellow jersey but watching the race on television is the closest you've come to a bike since childhood, you might want to check out the Electra Townie. Designed for rusty or neophyte adult riders, the retro cruiser combines the geometries of recumbent and traditional bicycles to create a new kind of vehicle: it has a seat and center of gravity lower than a standard bike's, making it easier to climb onto and off of than your average 10speed. The Townie's innovative design also lets you place...
DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters...
...private generators keep the TVs going through the daily blackouts. With school out and summer heat above 110°F every day, young people stay up to watch TV in the cool of the night and then sleep till noon. Many Baghdad kids, notes the doctor, have acquired a pasty yellow pallor. Some are getting fat from lack of exercise. His son, an engineer who refused to work for Saddam and now cannot find a job, is hugely obese from years of idleness. The doctor chafes that he cannot use the Internet to refresh his medical knowledge. After years of being...