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...sentiment seems to hold true for “A Good Woman”, Director Mike Barker’s (“To Kill A King”) adaptation of Wilde’s play “Lady Windemere’s Fan.” The basic idea for the film sounds rather appealing—aging seductress Lady Erlynne (Helen Hunt, “As Good As It Gets”) makes her way down to the Italian Riviera and disrupts the marital bliss of the genteelly tedious Windemeres. Gossip, spying through binoculars, and mistaken identities...
...love underground hip-hop,” he says. “But in Boston, the more mainstream, basic, beat-driven hip-hop is being pushed underground by the underground...
...advertisement in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, the letter voiced concern that the rising scientific sophistication of other countries poses a challenge to the United States’ technological and economic leadership. “To remain at the forefront, America must increase investments in basic research, improve math and science education, provide incentives for research and development and attract and retain the brightest minds from all around the globe,” the letter stated. Casey said the letter is a product of the Council of Competitiveness, a long-standing organization of business and university representatives...
...paintings in “Frank Stella 1958” show the beginnings of the reductiveness that culminated in the black paintings. Most of them explore the same very basic composition: a combination of horizontal stripes with rectangular shapes. In a succession of works, Stella explores the different ways that these stripes can be made and the different ways the rectangles can interact with them...
...border without papers has become so commonplace—it is estimated that there are 5 million illegal Mexican immigrants in the U.S. at any given time—that many Mexicans see the ability to cross into another sovereign nation’s territory unfettered as a basic right...