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...white stucco four-story apartment building on the rocky, windswept Miura coast is called the Blue Sea. The palm tree in front is lashed down with ropes to keep it from blowing over. But the views of the sailboat marina and rugged coastline are spectacular. It's a tony area: Japan's best-known actor of the 1960s, Toshiro Mifune, lived a few hundred meters down the coast until he died a few years ago. It takes no more than 60 seconds to walk from the front lobby of the Blue Sea to the spot where Lucie's remains were...
...then, it's that he can't treat romance glibly, but he's still relying on pop-culture icons to underscore his narratives. How a 19th century costume drama has a soundtrack featuring Lil' Kim and Pink boggles the mind. Just looking to the opening sequence (they're usually spectacular) and the promise of Kidman doing the can-can will ensure great box office receipts. It may be, as the trailers say, "A Story About Love", but it's also about Ewan MacGregor singing. Badly...
...rich texture of light and shadow. Another rare drawing by Titian, entitled “The Submersion of the Pharaoh’s Army in the Red Sea,” depicts the Biblical story of the Red Sea. With bold strokes of ink, Titian recreates the chaotic yet spectacular nature of this tale. The light sparkling on the sea, the smoke rising above the cities, the Pharoah’s army retreating on the left, as well as the triumphant Israelites to the right all combine in a drawing that ensnarls and captivates the viewer’s imagination...
...discussed to the exclusion of those researched facts we once called news, that rocky slope of basic oversight—and of the media’s spurious megalomania—draws ever near. But who, en route, will fault a little gazing in the mirror? In these spectacular times, image is everything...
...Crimson killer, Nickerson drove a stake through Harvard's heart this weekend. The senior third baseman all but sewed up All-Ivy honors, going 8-for-13 with a homer and five RBI in the Big Green's three wins this weekend. He also made no fewer than three spectacular plays in the infield, including a diving, over-the-head catch on a foul pop on Saturday...