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Friday 19th March, 2010
How to Dress
Slimmer
Exclusively for youth
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n case you haven’t
noticed, fashion
trends have been
evolving considerably,
and it’s pretty safe to
say that in today’s fashion and style world, anything goes! Whatever
fits your shape is good
to go, and that is why
it’s crucial that you pick
out clothes that fit your
body shape. You want to
find items that accentuate your good curves,
and ones that cover the
bad ones. So how can
you pick out clothes that
make you look slimmer?
It’s so easy, keep reading!
If you find that
you’re heavier on the
bottom (around your
thighs and butt), go for
empire waist styles, as
well as sun dresses, or
anything with a belt
Fag ain’t fly
any more!
at the waist. This will create the illusion of
a slim and fit bottom because it will accentuate your waist.
One trick to looking slimmer, and
one that everyone should know, is of
course putting on some heels. You
know that empowered feeling that
you get from wearing heels, well
they help you look slimmer by adding several inches to your height. This will
give the illusion of a slimmer silhouette overall.
If you’re struggling with
big arms, stay away from
tank-tops, tube tops, and anything that will expose your
arms to such an extent. Instead,
go for on the shoulder straps and
asymmetrical shaped tops, as
well as flared arm tops.
Have calf problems? Put
on a cute knee-length skirt and a
pair of heels (don’t worry, 1-2 inch
is just enough!), and you’ll see a
huge difference in your
Poet profile
Ai makes little attempt to capture
individual styles of diction, personal vocabularies; the result, if
monotonous, is also striking. A
Mexican revolutionary, an old
woman with a young lover, the
dead Robert Kennedy , a Vietnam
veteran—all speak with a sullen,
deadpan passion that galvanizes
our attention through the voice’s
intensity rather than by the accumulation of realistic detail. The
foreshortened, nearly parodic
vividness of Ai’s characters
makes them closer to types than
to historical portraits.
Conversation by Ai
We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I
say.
You touch my knees with your
blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the
floor
and burns a hole through it.
Love blows free for my love and me.
violence to historic atrocity,
her imagination
opens out into
the public
arena; the
domestic turns
political.
Throughout her
poetry, a
stripped-down
diction conveys
an underlying,
almost biblical
indignation—
not, at times,
without compassion—at human
misuses of power and the corrupting energies of various
human appetites.
Although virtually all the
poems present themselves as
spoken by a particular character,
Compiled by Dilanthi Jayamanne
( 1947 –present
AI Biography
A
i was born in Tucson,
Arizona, of mixed Native
American, African
American, and Japanese heritage. She studied writing with
Galway Kinnell at the University
of California at Irvine. The author
of four books of poems—Cruelty
(Boston, 1973 ), Killing Floor
(Boston, 1978 ), Sin (Boston,
1986 ), and Fate (Boston, 1991
). She lives in Cambridge.
Massachusetts.
All Ai’s work
is stark, harsh,
and dramatic
in style. But as
her preoccupations move
from personal
Free
Deer run free in the field.
Eagles fly free at will.
Leaves dance freely in the wind.
I will live you freely until life’s end.
LC
Friday 19th March, 2010
Soul
Seekers
The Umpire
Behind the wicket,
At the bowler`s end,
He stands awkward,
A cuckoo,
Amongst a flock of crows,
An alien,
A misfit,
A demigod,
Ruling over the fates,
Of thirteen sportive spirits,
A wound-up doll,
Making absurd gestures,
A judge, a proxy,
A figurehead,
The wide-brimmed hat he wears,
May save him,
From the scorching rays of the
Sun,
From an occasional stone,
Cast by an over-enthusiastic spectator,
From the droppings,
Of ash pigeons in flight,
But not from the scathing criticism,
From the fans, viewers,
And commentators,
The last`s being the worst.
Jayashantha Jayawardhana,
Bottom Power
Its genesis is from genesis
From the onset of creation
There comes the discrepancy
Going and coming hitherto
Like a dangling pendulum
It’s eerie
That it lured celestial celibates
Got laid with and procreated
In the likeness of man
With holy sons of God
Where comes the concealed
power?
Getting perplexed by its counterpart
stirring their virility to a
Blithering apogee
The strongest never got the
strength
To shriek off its wielded spell
The wisest got fooled by it
“I am not that type” some say
Forgetting that the survivor of
Fittest succumbed ‘cos it’s
Innate and natural
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but she already has and ends up chasing
David out with a butcher knife when he
says he can see Elizabeth’s spirit. Knowing
that Elizabeth is going to die in the morning, Elizabeth asks David to just stay up
and talk with her. In the morning, David
says that he will steal Elizabeth’s
body so that they can put it somewhere safe because he
won’t let her die.
Elizabeth says that in
order to even have a
chance to do that, they
need someone with a van
and no morals.
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Enter David driving
John’s van while they
are going to the hospital. Once there, David
explains that his imaginary friend is actually
alive and is able to convince John of this
because John knows
Abby. In fact, David
was supposed to be the
blind date at dinner
Elizabeth was going
to but David got cold
feet and Elizabeth got
in a car accident.
As John and
David are stealing
Elizabeth’s body,
Brett stops them.
David ends up
punching Brett out
and getting security called on him.
While John and
David are fleeing
security, the respirator keeping
Elizabeth alive
gets pulled out
and she starts to
die and her spirit starts to fade. As a last
effort, David kisses Elizabeth, which brings
her spirit b-ck but is quickly pulled off by
security. Elizabeth’s spirit fades as David
watches. Then, her body comes back to life
and she wakes up. Seeing David was able to
bring Elizabeth back to life, they let him go.
But Elizabeth doesn’t remember David.
David leaves looking very depressed.
The ultimate message about the power
of love and wisely-used time gives added
resonance to the tale.
”
She claims the
apartment is
hers, and it
becomes ever
clearer that
Elizabeth
doesn’t
remember her
past, and
shows
irrefutable
signs of being
a ghost. David
signs on to
help her solve
her own mystery, and the
the two grow
closer even as
it becomes
ever clearer
that they’ll
never be able
to be together
They first go talk to Darryl who
tells them not to try to figure out how
to put Elizabeth back in her body but
why only David can see her. They
then go over to Abby’s house to convince her not to sign the paper work,
roof and said that he sent the neighbor girl home. Elizabeth then tells
David that she originally got the
apartment so she could put a garden
on the roof. David says that he won’t
let Elizabeth die.
Just like
heaven
Elizabeth rushes back to
the apartment to find that the
neighbor girl is there and putting the moves on David. The
neighbor girl goes into the bedroom and asks David to come
in. Elizabeth is a bit dejected
and goes to wait on the roof
until David is done. David
shows up on the
After they find Elizabeth’s
body, David goes home and
Elizabeth decides to stay with
it. With being about to walk
through walls, Elizabeth
checks in on some of her
friends and finds that Brett,
her rival from the beginning of
the movie, got the attending
physician slot. Abby,
Elizabeth’s sister, comes in to
visit and learns that Elizabeth
had a living will but the decision to let her die will be left
up to her.
that Elizabeth was dreaming
about in the beginning of the
movie.
The wind blows free across the sea.
A little girl laughs gaily on her father’s
knee.
A bird sings happily in a tree.
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control freak
(Elizabeth) who
suddenly shows up
while he’s busy
vegetating. She
claims the apartment is hers, and
it becomes ever
clearer that
Elizabeth doesn’t remember her past, and
shows irrefutable signs of being a ghost.
David signs on to help her solve her own
mystery, and the the two grow closer even
as it becomes ever clearer that they’ll never
be able to be together. The chemistry
between Witherspoon and Ruffalo breathes
life into the well-trod terrain of the ghost
love story, while NAPOLEON DYNAMITE’S
Jon Heder almost steals the show as a bookstore worker with “the Gift.” The slapstick
humor resulting from David’s conversations with his “invisible” companion is
hilarious—in one standout scene, David
saves a man’s life as Elizabeth talks him
through the task.
When David learns that Elizabeth’s
soul, they going to all the neighbors and
asking about her. None of them really
knew her but one girl begins hitting on
David. They follow some other clues and
find out that Elizabeth is in a coma in the
hospital where she worked. Also during
this time, David explains that he was once
a successful architect who specialized in
gardens and they go to see some of his
work. The garden they end up at is the one
besides being nominated for the Most
Outstanding Director
at the 2007 ALMA
awards.
“Frida” by Julie
Taymor was the winner of the Best
motion Picture at the
2003 Golden Globe
awards, nominated for
Best Actress and Best
Act Direction at the
2003 BAFTA Film
awards, nominated for
Best Film at the 2003
Bangkok
International Film
Festival and Winner
at the 2002 Venice
Film Festival.
“Ramchand
Pakistan” was the winner of the Best Film at
the 2009 Friboure International Film Festival,
winner of Best Director at the 2008 Festival of
Asian and Arab Cinema and also gained a
Honourable Mention for Satyajith Ray award at
the 2008 London Film Festival.
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directed by Andy Garcia on March 26, while
the final film will be on March 27 titled
“Ramchand Pakistan” Directed by Mehreen
Jabbar in Urudu-Hindi.
“Dor” the Hindi film with English subtitles
won the Best Actress award by critics at the
2007 Zee Cine Awards, winner of Best Actress
award at the 2007 Bengal film Journalists
Celebrating
women: Film
Festival 2010
Association, while being nominated for the
Best Supporting Actress award at the 2007 Zee
Cine awards.
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Director at the 2006 Imagen Foundation awards
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Newer and smarter strategies which will evade the laws
and persuade more youth to
smoke have been adopted. Some of which
are
1. Paying lofty sums to film directors,
artists and producers to have scenes of
smoking in their creations.
2. Lobbying law makers to “loosen the
noose” by postponing implementation of
new laws. (eg by claiming that a “huge”
contribution is made via Tax for
Government revenue and conveniently
ignoring the fact that Government spends
twice as much in providing health care to
the effected)
3. Lobbying, influencing and at times
paying writers, journalists and professionals to promote, write and publish deceptive articles to hoodwink the public. (eg
glorifying smoking in novels and stories,
highlighting the association of famous
personalities with smoking )
4. Influencing public opinion by publishing information and bogus “scientific
research”.
5. Drawing attention away from the
destruction caused by cigarettes and promoting a “company image” which appears
social friendly. (eg “a company which protect the environment”)
6. Hiring models, famous, celebrity
and professionals to smoke at events and
in public.
7. Offering free products to youth at
events and functions.
8. Sponsoring youth events
and sports events in “covert”
brand names and brand signatures. (eg “Black and Gold”)
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our top films in English,
Hindi and Urdu will be
screened at the 6th
Annual Feminist Film
Festival in connection with
the International Women’s
Day organised by Women and
Media Collective (WMC) at
the Namel Malani Punch
Theatre, N. M. Perera
Mawatha (Former known as
Cotta Road) in Borella from
March 24 to 27. Screening
times will be at 3 p.m. and 6
p.m. each day, while no
entrance fee will be charged.
The Hindi Film titled
“Dor” directed by Nagesh
Kukuwoor will be shown on
March 24, English film direct-
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