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...compete in a beauty contest as Miss Afghanistan. When Samadzai paraded in her native country's sash at the recent Miss Earth pageant in the Philippines, the Afghan supreme court condemned the leggy Pashtun beauty queen to hell, calling such pageants "totally un-Islamic" and against "tradition, human honor and dignity." Ah, if only all Afghan women enjoyed the dignity Western women are afforded: to be judged not by the hem of their burqas but by the size of their breasts...
...Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
...painting, a gift to the Busch-Reisinger in honor of its 100th birthday, captures the essence of an oft-missed period that preceded German Expressionism and threatened the stability of academic art, generating a rich array of conflicting styles...
...superb collection of 10 other artworks given to the Busch in honor of the anniversary (which do not pertain to the period in question) is dispersed throughout the adjacent permanent galleries...
...like so many proverbial pogs to be flipped and discarded. This is not just a Halloween-induced travesty; Kill Bill is making such huge waves that trendsetters are bringing it to the very forefront of popular culture. Now, Kill Bill must fight a “Battle without Honor or Humanity,” to determine if it will be forever admired as one of the greats, or just another Pet Rock...