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...Fairy, Braschi, co-screenwriter Cerami and soundtrack composer Nicola Piovani, all of whom worked with him on Life is Beautiful. From the start Benigni has said he wanted to produce a literal version of Pinocchio. Italian critics exiting the preview noted that he had certainly been faithful to the text, but wondered whether his onscreen antics didn't pale beside Benigni's own adventures last week, which were classic Collodi. Benigni used to be applauded as a scourge of the Italian establishment, but many of his fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting...
...pairs the crunch of buttered, sugar-dipped French bread with the melt-in-your-mouth softness of simmered apricots. And if you've missed the apricot's glorious, but short, season, the recipe also works well with peaches. Those with a weakness for trivia will find gems throughout the text, which, again, is an addition to the original Pomona. Did you know that currants have a patron saint, John the Baptist? (His feast day, June 24, is around the time of the harvest.) Or that gooseberries have a literary pedigree stretching back to 13th-century France? (The poet Rutebeuf mentions...
Pointedly ungrammatical text mocking various minorities’ accents or dialects and playing on various physical and cultural stereotypes runs alongside...
...that, instead of inspiring confidence in the territory's financial underpinnings, reminds people of a discount coupon for laundry detergent. "It looks juvenile," says local merchant Jeremy Chia of the garish pink and purple banknote. Part of the problem is the inclusion of numerous anti-counterfeiting features, including embossed text and a watermarked bauhinia flower. "The abundance of security features may not be appropriate," admitted monetary authority chief executive Joseph Lam?especially since the note, worth about $1.28 U.S., is too small for counterfeiters to bother with. We suspect the bill's cryptic graphical motifs have a hidden meaning...
...wonder if it’s possible to understand the warnings in my letter until one has actually made the mistakes.” Harvard students, so willing to glean any piece of information which might prove useful—or, at least, testable—from an assigned text, would do well to study Lewis’ letter with the same vigor. For the simple, almost trite maxim “less is more” contains more practical wisdom for the Harvard student than can be found in any algebraic equation or classical quotation...