Archive for the December 29, 2018
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She takes on a beloved movie character and dances with penguins, but what really terrified British actress Emily Blunt was descending slowly from the clouds as the new Mary Poppins. More than 50 years after
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Why don't chickens fly? When did the moon learn to be kind? Those and other mysteries were unraveled by dozens of African storytellers in Nairobi on Saturday, helping keep alive oral traditions increasingly under threat
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Shortly after the release of his 2015 Wall Street drama "The Big Short," writer and director Adam McKay was home sick with the flu and picked up a book about former US Vice President Dick
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On weekday mornings, two healthy activities - exercise and sleep - compete with each other for time, researchers say. As exercise increases, sleep decreases among those who wake up early to work out before heading
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From an eye shadow that opens with the flick of a thumb, Zippo-style, to a barely-there foundation in subtle blue-gray packaging: men's make-up is getting a makeover as manufacturers bid to take it more mainstream.
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Two master bakers dressed in white use a long knife to carve a heavy, thick slab of molasses-coloured gingerbread dough out of a huge metal vat, where, like wine, it has been maturing for a
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At 87 years old, Taiwanese glove puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang is the star of a new documentary which reflects his determination to revive the dying traditional craft and a late-life renaissance as a high-profile promoter of
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Laila Rahman's paintings and prints pointed towards the nature of human beings who are now in a state of disbelief most of the time in their lives. Taking the letter 'Meem' in Urdu as a
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Salman Hunzai portrayed the most attractive scenes in his paintings depicting the huge mountains one of the nature's attractions of picturesque scenic valley of Hunza displayed in an exhibition at Mainframe Gallery, Karachi. The snow-cap
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From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they've walked into a movie fantasy
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