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Perhaps a picture really can capture a thousand words. Perhaps eyes really are the windows to the soul.
Think of it this way: the 2003 NCAA men's basketball tournament started Tuesday, March 18th, and the 75th annual Academy Awards ceremony is this Sunday, March 23.
Sometimes the power is simply in the voice, in the way the vibrations of sound can coat words with a new authority, an indescribable presence.
If one can get past basic vegetable stereotypes -- think the Outback Steakhouse and fried rings -- there's a valuable metaphor to be gained from "The Onion." Think about it.
Call the show a political crusade for V-Day -- a campaign against women's violence -- and the global rights of women.
Live in the States long enough, stand in enough movie theater lines, buy into enough of the Hollywood and People magazine hype, and there are some things that you just come to expect.
Somehow, it's all worth it -- the standing in line days ahead of time for tickets, the embarrassing looks from movie-goers a decade younger than you and even the awkward conversations in the popcorn line about favorite passages from the book (don't even ask me why these happened, but they did). From the moment that Dobby (a house-elf) shows up in the first scene to throw a cake on the bulbous head of his uncle's client, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is full-blown movie-going pleasure. Now almost five years after its 1998 book release, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is almost nothing more than a memory in the book world of bestsellers and holiday picks.
Frantically, the fans are riding the edges of their seats. Those who waited in line to be the very first inside, well, those fans are waving their arms frenetically behind the opponent's basket in a well known attempt to prevent scoring.
Handing over the ticket to Krishna in "Salaam Bombay," the seller remarks without emotion on the destination: "Bombay.
