Word: versions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pages) embeds the theft within more workmanlike prose and the larger story of how Paris police were struggling in the early 20th century against a world of gangsters and anarchists. Unfortunately, the authors of both books have decided to pad out their texts by resurrecting an utterly unsubstantiated version of who might have been behind the heist. (The Mona Lisa mystery: Pregnant? Disgusted...
...nostalgia, but Gen X isn't far behind. In early April, Sony reissued four physical editions of Pearl Jam's 1992 album Ten at four price points. Each offered improved sound, a separate remix album, a DVD and thoughtful, creative packaging born of collaboration with the band. (A digital version without the extras is also available.) More important, Block's team reached out to Pearl Jam's fans and asked specific questions about what they wanted. In their first week of release, the various Tens combined to sell 55,000 copies - including an astonishing 10,000 of the $199 collector...
...March of the Penguins category of adorable documentary, Disney offered Earth, a cut-down and cuted-up version of the 2006 BBC series Planet Earth. Mixing and milking the week's two do-gooder events - Earth Day and Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day - Disney fashioned its own Take Your Kid to a Movie Called Earth Day and harvested a very green $4 million on its Wednesday opening. That 24-hr. gesture must have exhausted American moviegoers' impulse to save the planet, for in the next four days, including the weekend, Earth didn't come near the daily...
...manage to salvage the concerto’s explosive conclusion.After Friere’s encore rendition of Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” which was just as tame as the main performance itself, Sung led the orchestra in the 1945 version of Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet written on commission by dancer/choreographer Martha Graham. While the BSO attacked Copland’s syncopated rhythms with crisp precision and settled upon key symphonic harmonies in layers of perfect intonation, the distinctively optimistic...
...plays into the Zimbabweans' belief that they live in a version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, where some animals are more equal than others. Just a day after the new government was sworn in, all the Ministers - almost 40 of them - were driving around in luxury Mercedes Benzes. Each was allocated an all-terrain vehicle. Their deputies were each assigned a luxury car as well...