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...part of its three-week-long retrospective of Frank's film and video works, a screening was hastily arranged Thursday night at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Despite minimal publicity, the infamous film sold out quickly, the 315 seats snatched up on a first-come, first-serve basis. There was a sense of collective privilege, as the lights went down, to be able to see an original (non-subtitled) copy of the 16mm film projected in a theater with quality sound. The excited crowd was comprised most of people in their 20s and 30s, many soixante-huitards (or "68ers...
...only controversy of the film Thursday night was its sound problem. Early on, the theater's speaker system sputtered out a half-dozen times, leaving the soundtrack silent for some two minutes. Save for a few heavy sighs and shouts of "C'est pas normal!," the audience remained oddly quiet...
...Volz, ironically, had tried to address some of these issues in the pages of his magazine. But when he was moved from jail to house arrest last Thursday, many townsfolk said it was just more of the same. "If he were a Nica, they won't have let him out," one local woman complained. But Anthony says the facts clearly show her son was in Managua, two hours away, at the time of the murder; and she is looking forward to having her boy freed and returning home to Nashville next week. "I think he will stay at home...
...smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis. “Cigarettes are finely-tuned drug delivery devices, designed to perpetuate a tobacco pandemic...
...really be that simple-minded?" Shawn's stepfather, Craig Akers, said in an interview with TIME late Thursday evening. "Our son was 11 when he was abducted. A child that age can be mentally manipulated in a very short time. Hearing him say what he said absolutely infuriates me. I can hardly even express how mad it makes me to hear that...