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British director Andrea Arnold and German actress Diane Kruger at the 65th Canne film festival Many critics have complained that all 22 films in the contest have been directed by men, many past winners of the award. But jury member British director Andrea Arnold said: “I would absolutely hate it if my film was selected because I was a woman. I would only want my film to be selected for the right reasons.”
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One Hong Kong-based inventor, Lucien Gambarota, is leading the way. Since the age of 12, the French-born Italian has been making a name for himself as a trailblazing engineer. Forty years since his first invention — an underwater breathing machine — Gambarota is living in Hong Kong with roughly 300 innovations under his belt.Sensing that energy would be an issue for future generations, Gambarota began focusing his electric zeal on conservation and renewable projects about a decade ago.
The silver silkscreen painting shows the rock and roll heartthrob armed and shooting from the hip. A shadowy Elvis figure is faintly visible in the background. It was exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1963, the year it was created. The auction house said it’s the first ‘Double Elvis’ to appear on the market since 1995. The sale estimate is $30 million to $50 million.
In a groundbreaking move, international fashion magazine Vogue has pledged it will no longer use photographs of dangerously underweight models.In a statement published across all of its 19 international editions on Thursday, the magazine’s editors promised not to picture models under the age of 16 or those who they believe have an eating disorder.
They said the six-point pact, called ‘The Health Initiative’, aims to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the fashion industry, which has been lambasted for promoting anorexia.
One of the art world’s most recognizable images – Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” – sold Wednesday for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.The 1895 artwork – a modern symbol of human anxiety – was sold at Sotheby’s. The buyer’s name was not released.
The previous record for an artwork sold at auction was $106.5 million for Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust,” sold by Christie’s in 2010.
The legendary Oxford interview — during which a university academic invites a prospective undergrad into her study, hands him a cup of tea and ruthlessly probes the limits of his intelligence — is often cited as the scariest part of applying to the university.But for some young hopefuls, the overflowing bookshelves and wood paneling in a typical professor’s study are just as likely to throw them as any question about Rousseau’s “social contract.” For students from the inner city, many of whom have grown up with concrete and fluorescent lights, it’s easy to be overawed.
That’s why, in one of the roughest parts of London, a public school recently built a little piece of Oxford — a replica don’s room — in the hopes of boosting students’ confidence when they go for an interview in the real thing.
Painting roofs white and using light-coloured materials to surface roads and pavements would not only make cities cooler in summer, it would save the same amount of carbon as taking all the cars in the world off the roads for 50 years, a study has found.One of the simplest, yet most effective, ways of engineering the urban environment to cope with global warming is to increase the reflectivity of the cityscape so that more of the incoming sunlight is directed back into space, scientists said.
In a video, which has gone viral on YouTube, six ‘sex workers’ strut their stuff in the windows of brothels by the famous canals as tourists wander past.
The advertising campaign was created by Duval Guillaume for Stop The Traffik, a global movement aimed at putting an end to human trafficking.
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Yet Santam, whose recent TV commercial became the subject of one of Nando’s trademark spoofs last month, has hit back at the restaurant chain with the following video response. Take a look.
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From the moments when the captain made the first in a series of incredible blunders, through a harrowing night of mindless panic and deadly peril, in which rescuers and passengers improvised a massive evacuation and ordinary men emerged as heroes, Bryan Burrough reconstructs an epic fight for survival—in which all too many would perish.
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