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LOSING YOUR IDEIITITY
You are who you are - that is obvious, isn't
it? Not so in the case of over 10 million U5
citizens ayear. These people have been
robbed of their identity. Their credit card
or social security number has been
illegally obtained in orderto buy goods or
claim benefit in their name. Most victims
are not even aware of the crime until
their accounts have been emptied and
huge debts have been run up against
their name. In our World Report this
month, we look into identity theft, a new
wave of crime that is sweeping the globe.
On CD, we feature profiles of Hugh
Laurie, star of the popularTVseries
House, and the tropical island of Barba-
dos. We hear from an expert on 5t George
and from residents of Tacoma and New
York. Guitarist Joe Bonamassa talks
about the blues and we listen to the
first few pages of best-selling book
Marley &Me, by John Grogan.
18
Ralph Fiennes
is the star of The
Constant Gardener,
this month's Speak
Up movie,
4 Gl EASY ENGLISH
On CD, we feature a profile of
British actor Hugh Laurie, star of
TV's Dr House, and we visit the
Caribbean island of Barbados, plus
our usual Easy English features.
12 PEACE MOM
Cindy Sheehan lost her son in the
Iraq War and is now demanding
answers from the US government.
14 CRIME IN THE COMPUTER AGE
With over 10 million cases reported
last year, identity theft has become
the number one crime in the US.
18 RALPH FIENNES
Stoic and smouldering, Ralph Fiennes
excels at playing complex characters.
20 NEXTFEST
Wired magazine recently celebrated
its third futuristic fair, NextFest.
24 Gl ST GEORGE FOR ENGLANDI
We look at the contemporary meaning
of England's patron saint, St George.
26 Gl TACOMA TRANSFORMED
Tacoma, in the US north-west, is
finally stepping out of the shadow of
its more famous neighbour, Seattle.
32 THE TOWER OF BABEL
Can English revive the monolingual,
pre-Babel paradise of biblical lore?
34 Gl ART DECO
New York City boasts many fine
examples of Art Deco architecture.
38 Gl GUITAR WIZARD
Guitar wizard Joe Bonamassa was
discovered by blues legend BB King.
40 Gl MARLEY & ME
The opening pages of Marley & Me,
author John Grogan's best-selling
account oflife with his beloved dog.
4G Gl THE LAST LAUGH
Two scathing jokes about a lawyer
and an adulterous husband.
EASY ENCLISH / PROFILE /0ON CD1
BY JOHN RIGG - SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
ILanguage level: IBASICI
Antipatico, arrogante, directo y a menudo brutal, el
personaje del doctor House, interpretado por Hugh
Laurie, es poco convencional. Quizas por eso la serie
triunfa en todo el mundo. Descubrimos sus secretos.
DrHouse
r House has a dry!, cynical
smile and no time to waste
2
on
his patients' feelings. He is a
very unconventional doctor
who tells his patients they are
dying. Is this simply cruel, or necessary
to save their lives?
Hugh Laurie stars as Dr Gregory House
in the successful US series House. Each
episode focuses on a patient who is dy-
ing ftom a rare disease
3
; Dr House and
4 SPEAK UP
Hugh Laurie, 47, star of the hit TV series, House.
Opposite: Dr House with (clockwisel his colleagues
Foreman, Cameron, Wilson, Cuddy and Chase.
his team of experts must discover the
cause and find a solution. He's arrogant
and cruel. He's a grumpy', middle-aged
man, who is crippled
5
and walks with
the aid ofawalking stick
6
This is not the
recipe
7
for a successful American TV
show: so why is House a worldwide suc-
cess? It's the eccentricity and genius of
Dr House, a man who is ready to risk
his career for his patients. He refuses to
accept the obvious, ignores orders to
stop investigations, and eventually re-
veals the truth.
Executive producer Paul Attanasio,
inspired by the New York Times' Diag-
nosis Column, wanted to create a med-
ical version of the American hit series
CSI. The show's principal writer David
Shore decided, however, to focus on the
characters of the medical team.
House, an infectious disease special-
istS, bullies and argues
9
with his group
ofyoung colleagues, especially Dr Eric
Foreman (who regularly questions10
House's ability). House also ignores
hospital administrator Dr Lisa Cuddy's
frequent reprimands. He has just
one friend who he confides in, Dr
James Wilson.
The creator of the series, David Shore,
modelled the doctor's character on
Sherlock Holmes (even the name
'House' is a synonym of Ho(l)mes).
Both men have supreme deductive
powers, are addicted to drugs'!, and play
musical instruments.
Arthur Conan Doyle in fact based
the character of Holmes on the famous
medical diagnostician Joseph Bell.
Hugh Laurie won the starring role in
the hit series when producer Bryan
Singer saw his audition: "This is what
the show needs," he declared, "a real
American actor!" Hugh Laurie, an Eng-
lishman who does an excellent Ameri-
can accent, isn't embarrassed, but he
feels guilty12 because he now earns'3 far
more than his father, a real doctor.
1 DRY: sardonico, sarcasrico 2 NO
TIME TO WASTE: sin riempo que perder
3 DISEASE: enfermedad 4 GRUMPY: malhumorado
5 CRIPPLED: discapacirado 6 WITH THE AID OF A WALK-
ING STICK: apoyandose en un basron (IiL: con la
ayuda de...) 7 RECIPE: recera 8 INFECTIOUS OISEASE
SPECIALIST: especialisra en enfermedades conragiosas
9 TO BULLY, TO ARGUE: inrimidar, discurir 10 TO
QUESTION: poner en duda 11 ADDICTED TO DRUGS: dro-
godependieme 12 GUILTY: culpable 13 TO EARN: ganar
WHO IS HUGH LAURIE? 1 ANKLE: robillo 2 COME-
DIAN: comico 3 PUBLIC SCHOOL: escuela privada
4 ROWER: remero 5 CREW: rripulacion 6 TO LOSE NAR-
ROWLY: perder por poco 7 TO GIVE UP: dejar 8 LIGHT-
HEARTED THRILLER: novela policiaca enrrerenida
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
1) Decide whether the following facts are
true or false according to the profile on the
successful TV series House.
A. Dr House is usually very honest with his
patients. TRUE/FALSE
B. The narrator believes that Dr House is a
typical American TV show character.
TRUE/FALSE
c. The producer was inspired by another
medical TV programme.
TRUE/FALSE
D. Dr House fights and argues with all his
medical colleagues in the hospital.
TRUE/FALSE
E. The characters Dr House and Sherlock
Holmes have only one thing in common.
TRUE/FALSE
F. The creator of Sherlock Holmes based
his character on a real doctor.
TRUE/FALSE
G. Hugh Laurie's accent in the series is a
mix of British and American.
TRUE/FALSE
21 Place the following topics into the order
in which they appear in the report.
A. Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of
Sherlock Holmes.
B. The American hit TV series C51.
c. Reasons for the success of House.
D. Hugh Laurie wins the part as Dr House.
E. Dr House's colleagues.
F. What happens in each episode.
G. Dr House's physical appearance.
Hugh Laurie says he is best known
as a pair of ankles' in the Stuart Little
movies [pictured right): he was the
adopted mouse's father.
The truth is that Laurie has been a
successful comedian
2
in Britain for
over 20 years: he starred with
Stephen Fry in the British comedy
shows A Bit of Fry and Laurie and
Jeeves and Wooster. He also
appeared in Rowan Atkinson's BBC
series Blackadder.
The Boat Race
Laurie was born in Oxford on June
11th 1959. He went to the exclusive
public school
3
Eton and studied
Archaeology and Anthropology at
Cambridge.
He was a successful rower
4
at
school and university; his crews
narrowly lost
6
the 1980 Oxford
and Cambridge Boat Race.
The Footlights
Glandular fever forced him to give up?
rowing, so he joined the university's
Footlights Revue - an annual show
which has produced many stars such
as Monty Python's John Cleese and
the actress Emma Thompson.
In fact, Laurie and Emma Thompson
produced the 1980 Footlight revue
called The Cellar Tapes with
Stephen Fry.
Laurie has also written a novel, The
Gun Seller, a light-hearted thrillers.
3) Write the correct adjective in the gaps
provided. The first letter of each adjective is
given to help you.
A. Dr House has a dry, kl smile.
B. Hugh Laurie stars in the IsI _
US series House.
c. He's a grumpy, 1m) man, who
is crippled and walks with a stick.
D. The show's [pI writer decided
to focus on the characters of the medical
team.
E. Both Holmes and House have
lsI deductive powers.
F. Hugh Laurie feels IgI _
because he now earns more than his
father, a real doctor.
Answers
1)A. True, B. False, c. False, D. False,
E. False, F. True, G. False
2) F, G, C, B, E, A, 0
3) A. cynical, B. successful,
c. middle-aged, D. principal,
E. supreme, F. guilty
More exercises on CD
EASY EIICLISH / STRANGE STORIES
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Este mes, nuestras historias sorprendentes son variadas: de
un polemico sistema para fomentar el reciclaje de basuras
a un restaurante londinense en el que se cena a oscuras.
British engineers say they can use street
vibrations from footsteps10 to produce
clean energy. "Each footstep gives us 5
to 7 watts ofenergy," says Claire Price
ofthe Pacesetters Project, "and a city's
pedestrians will provide
1
' enough
energy to power its lights." Special
hydraulic generators under the floors in
busy public spaces - such as
underground stations - will capture the
energy. The team is also planning to use
the vibrations from cars and trains. The
initial idea came from engineer Jim
Gilbert, who developed special shoes
for the army'2: these generated energy
to power soldiers' mobile phones.
Good Vibrationsl
1 RUBBISH: basura 2 LOOK OUT:
iculdadol 3 LOCAL COUNCIL:
ayuntamiento 4 BIN: cubo 5 MP (=MEMBER OF
PARLIAMENT]: dipurado 6 TO GO MAD: volverse loco
7 TO IMPROVE: mejorar 8 OWNERSHIP: propiedad
9 TO FINE: mulrar 10 FOOTSTEP: pisada 11 TO
PROVIDE: suminisrar 12 ARMY: ejerciro
intruded into people's private lives in
this way!" Councils claim the sensors
will improve? efficiency and resolve
disputes over ownerships of bins.
However, experts say that the
government plans to limit the amount
of non-recyclable rubbish that people
can leave, and will fine
9
those who
exceed the limits. So, next time you
are in Britain, be careful what you
put in your bin!
Is recycling your rubbish' too much
trouble for you? Well, look oue! Local
councils
3
in England are spying on
residents' rubbish bins
4
: small
electronic sensors record and then
transmit information about the
contents of the bins to a central
database. Conservative Mp
s
Andrew
Pelling says: "It's Big Brother gone
mad
6
Not even the old Soviet Union
Rubbishl
It's aStrangll,
Strange Worlill
6 SPEAK UP
In the Dark
Dans Ie Noir is a London restaurant
with a difference: the dining room is
completely dark. Customers first select
from the menu in the restaurant bar,
then they form a human chain, arms on
shoulders' , and walk into the darkness
of the dining room. Blind
2
waiters
3
guide customers to their table, help
them to sit and find their cutlery', after
which the waiters serve the food and
customers try and find their mouths
with their forks.
The restaurant is not very expensive,
by London standards: a three-course
dinner costs you around 45 per
person, and gives you a unique chance
to explore the tastes ofits French-
inspired food, especially ifyou choose
the surprise menu. The first Dans Le
Noir restaurant was opened in Paris
and was a great success. Its motto was
provided by William Shakespeare:
"There is no darkness but ignorance
s
."
Miami Vice
Are you one of those lazy people who
never want to get out ofbed? Then
B.E.D. is the place for you! This Miami
restaurant has no tables and no chairs:
customers sit on beds surrounded by
their friends and enormous cushions.
They serve themselves from buffet
stations and listen to music played by
top DJs. The restaurant's clients include
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and
Britney Spears.
Bed and Breakfast
The Mighty OakTree Climbing
Companl in Nanswhyden, Cornwall,
must be the most unusual- and insane?
- bed and breakfast in the world.
There's no building, just a field and
some very tall trees. First an expert gives
a lesson in how to climb high into the
trees, then it's time for a barbecue at
ground level with organiser Bethany
Stock. When it gets dark, the guests
climb high into the treetops where they
struggle onto their hammocks
B
about
15 metres above the ground. Guests
must keep their harnesses
9
and safety
ropes'o on all night in case they fall.
One customer, George Hurley, reports:
''Amazingly'', I slept. I didn't think I
would, and waking up with the birds
singing around us ... Well, I was
terrified up there, but it was
unforgettable'2!"
1 ARMS ON SHOULOERS: los brazos en
los hombros de la persona de delanre
2 BlINO: ciego 3 WAITER: camarero 4 CUTLERY:
cubienos 5 THERE IS NO OARKNESS BUT IGNORANCE: la
unica oscuridad es la ignorancia 6 MIGHTY OAK TREE
CLIMBING COMPANY: lir., companla de escaJadores de
los grandes robles 7 INSANE: loco 8 STRUGGLE ONTO
THEIR HAMMOCKS: se esriran con dificulrad en sus
hamacas 9 HARNESS: ames 10 SAFETY ROPE: cuerda
de seguridad 11 AMAZINGLY: sorprendenremenre
12 UNFORGETIABLE: inolvidable
SPEAK uP?
EASY ENGLISH / LANGUAGE
BY JOHN RIGG
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Words,Words
Este mes, ademas de examinar terminos relacionados con la
medicina y las consultas medicas, nos ocuparemos tambien
de algunas palabras que en ingles tienen varios significadoso
Drugs
Once the doctor decides on a course of
treatment
6
, he or she will prescribe a
drug? No, that doesn't mean cocaine: a
drug is a general term for medicines in
English, so the doctor may prescribe an
antibiotic or another medicine. Take
the prescriptionS to a chemist's or
pharmacy (in the USA). In America
you will also find drugstores. Drugstore
was originally a synonym for pharmacy,
but today most drugstores sell a wide
variety ofproducts.
Medical Matters
Ifyou become ilP while in Britain,
where do you go for treatment? Well,
when it's serious, go to the nearest
hospital's Emergency department - the
British haveA&E departments (A&E
stands for
2
Accident and Emergency),
while Americans have Emergency
Rooms: remember ER, the famous TV
show. Ifit isn't an emergency, go to a
doctor's surgery (in Britain) or a
doctor's office (in the USA). The use of
surgery in the sense ofan office is
confusing: a surgeon
3
is a doctor who
operates on patients in a hospital's
operating theatre
4
(in the UK) or
operating room (in the USA).
Incidentally, dentists and vets
(veterinary surgeons) also work in a
surgery, though a vet actually operates
on animals in his surgery.
Note that it is the patient who visits the
doctor, and not the doctor who visits
the patient, unless there is an
emergency and the doctor makes a
house callS.
A doctor examines the patient or gives
him a check-up: he - or she - takes his
temperature, checks his blood pressure
and so on.
The Video Pill
Ifa patient has a serious illness, then a
pill won't be sufficient and specialist
tests will be necessary. These include x-
rays, various scans
9
and possibly a video
pill. What's that? It's a
camera which has the
form and size ofa pill.
The video pill is
swallowed'o and
transmits images from inside the
patient's body. It's a substitute for
uncomfortable internal tests such as
colonoscopies. UKhospitals are testing
the video pill at present" and it should
be available next year.
1 TO BECOME ILL: caer enfermo
"':ilio'loW.. 2 TO STAND FOR: significar 3 SURGEON:
cirujano 4 OPERATING THEATRE: quir6fano 5 HOUSE
CALL: visica domiciliaria 6 COURSE OF TREATMENT:
craramiemo 7 DRUG: firmaco 8 PRESCRIPTION: receca
9 SCAN: exploraci6n con un escaner 10 TO SWALLOW:
ingerir 11 AT PRESENT: ahora, accualmeme
Gol Gol Gol
The English language loves to take a
simple word and give it multiple
meanings. Take go, for example, which
doesn't only mean to leave or travel
fromAtoB.
We meet a man in the street who
complains' his car won'tgo: that means
he can't start the engine. The man is
very angry; in fact, hegoes bananas, that
is, he becomes crazy.
That's just the beginning: a bomb goes
off, or explodes, and yet fires go out, or
stop burning. Foodgoes off, too, but
that means it's rotten
2

A young man can ask a girl to go out

with him (be his girlfriend). They
thengo steady (have a long-term
relationship) . Unfortunately, things go
wrong. The girl goes offwith another
man (leaves him), so the boyfriend goes
topieces (has a mental breakdown
3
).
Yet life goes on (continues), even though
it's touch andgo (an uncertain situation)
for a while.
Burn, Baby, Burnl
Burn is another example: you burn
wood' or coals on a fire. The fire burns
out when there's no more wood or coal.
Life is very stressful today and many
people suffer from burnout: they are so
exhausted, they don't have the energy
to go on.
Record companies are also stressed
out: they're losing money because so
many people are illegally downloading
music from the internet and burning
their own CDs'.
Finally, a piece ofadvice
7
: ifyou are
thinking ofmaking big changes in
your life, don't burnyour bridges-
that is, don't eliminate the possibility
ofareturn.
1 TO COMPLAIN: quejarse 2 ROITEN:
podrido 3 MENTAL BREAKOOWN:
crisis nerviosa 4 WOOD: madera 5 COAL: carb6n
6 TO BURN ONE'S OWN CD: grabar su propio CD
7 PIECE OF ADVICE: consejo
EASY EIIGLISH / TRAVEL/eON C02
BY JOHN RIGG - SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
ILanguage level: I BASICI
Barbados
Con una temperatura media de 28 grados cendgrados y
una costa salpicada de playas cristalinas, Barbados es una
isla, amante del 'calypso' yel ron, que vive del turismo.
arbados is the perfect destina-
tion for a holiday with its
golden beaches, relaxed re-
sorts1 and friendly people. Bar-
bados is part of the West Indi-
an archipelago and, while its rocky2,
eastern coast faces the wild Atlantic
Ocean, the southern and western coasts
offer sheltered
3
beaches, transparent
water and average temperatures of
28 centigrade. Each year thousands of
10 SPEAK UP
tourists arrive at the island's internation-
al airport, near the capital Bridgetown.
The island is nicknamed
4
'Little Eng-
land' and is awonderful mixture ofEng-
lish tradition and African spiceS. Here
you can enjoy exotic dishes such as spicy
pork stews
6
and flying fish7, alongside
the typically English baked beanss on
toast. The official language is English,
Life on the island of Barbados. Below. right: cricket
was introduced by the English. The best Barbadian
cricketers play for the combined West Indies' team.
although Barbadians, or 'Bajans', also
speak a Creole dialect which uses Eng-
lish words with African grammatical
structures. Visitors will be surprised to
find Bridgetown's Trafalgar Square and
its imposing statue of Lord Nelson.
Place names
9
are also strangely familiar.
There's a stretch of rocky coastline10
called Scotland, while there are resorts
with names like Brighton, Worthing
and Hastings.
Visitors can tour the island's many his-
toric sites, visit pirate cavesII and enjoy
short cruises12 around the island. The
more adventurous can take a submarine
tour and see the island's incredible coral
fauna. There are bus services to most
places, or visitors can rent a car or mo-
torcycle. Drivers should avoid another
of the island's attractions: Bajan rum-
though a visit to a distillery, such as
Mount Gay, not far from Bridgetown,
is recommended.
Finally, as the sun sets13, everyone
goes to the colourful rumshops, the Bar-
badian equivalent ofthe English pub, to
enjoy a pleasant evening among friends.
1 RESORT: lugar de veraneo 2 ROCKY:
rocoso 3 SHELTERED: proregido 4 TO
NICKNAME: apodar 5 SPICE: sabor 6 SPICY PORK STEW:
esrofado picanre de cerdo 7 FLYING FISH: pez volador
8 BAKED BEANS: alubias en salsa de romare 9 PLACE
NAME: rop6nimo 10 STRETCH OF ROCKY COASTLINE:
exrensi6n de cosra rocosa 11 CAVE: cueva 12 CRUISE:
crucero 13 AS THE SUN SETS: al ponerse el sol
ISLAND CULTURE
1. dishes
2. water
3. beaches
4. coastline
5. language
6. temperature
2) Match the adjectives with the nouns to
form common collocations. All are used
in the report.
A. golden
B. transparent
c. average
D. exotic
E. official
F. rocky
4) Unscramble the following letters to make
the names of Barbados' neighbouring
islands in the Caribbean. The first letter of
each word is given to help you.
A. G-a-a-e-r-n-d
B. A-b-a-u-r
c. T-r-d-d-i-i-a-n
D.G-p-a-e-u-d-e-o-u-l
E. J-c-m-a-a-a-i
F. M-q-i-i-n-e-r-a-u-t
3) Insert the correct verb: the first letter of
each is given to help you. All examples come
from the original report.
A. Every year thousands of tourists
(a) at the island's international
airport.
B. Here you can (e) exotic dishes.
c. Visitors will be surprised to (f) _
Bridgetown's Trafalgar Square.
D. Visitors can (t) the island's many
historic sites.
E. The most adventurous can (t) a
submarine tour.
F.... Or Irl a car or motorcycle.
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
1) Choose the correct option in each case.
A. Barbados is a very popular holiday
resort, especially with its golden
(BEACHES / TEMPLES).
B. Some place names are [IDENTICAL / SIMILAR)
to those in the United Kingdom.
c. Barbados is a favourite place for
(BRITISH / AMERICAN) tourists.
D. Visitors can tour the island's (MANY / FEW)
historic sites.
E. [FOOTBALL / CRICKET) is Barbados' national
sport.
F. If you're feeling adventurous you can go on
a (SHORT CRUISE / SUBMARINE TOUR).
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BarbadOs, St.lllQl

Caribbean Sea
In the 1930s all Barbadians won
the right to vote in free elections
and the island itself won freedom
from Britain in 1966.
The British influence, however,
remains evident in the many
Georgian and Victorian houses
on the island, and in cricket,
Barbados' national sport.
I!III!'-I!IP.WI 1 Bcl= BEFORE CHRIST!: ames
de Crisco 2 AD 1= ANNO DOMINII:
despues de Cristo 3 HANGING BEARO-LIKE ROOTS:
rakes colgames en forma de barba 4 FIG TREE:
higuera 5 SETILER: colono
/ '/
Colombia
..... .., - -.
j
..
GtIllI'geTown
Amerindians, the first people to
inhabit the island, travelled from
Venezuela in canoes around 1600
BC'. The first Europeans to reach
the island were the Portuguese: in
1536 A0
2
Portugese explorer Pedro
Campos named the island Los Bar-
bados because of the hanging beard-
like roots
3
of the island's fig trees'.
English settlers
s
arrived in 1627 and
later brought 70,000 African slaves
to work on sugarcane plantations
and the island became the world's
top sugar producer.
Answers
1) A. beaches, B. identical, c. British,
D. many, E. Cricket, F. submarine tour
2)A3, B2,c6,D1, E5, F4
3) A, arrive, B. enjoy, c. find, D. tour,
E. take, F. rent
4)A. Grenada, B. Aruba, c. Trinidad,
D. Guadeloupe, E. Jamaica,
F. Martinique
More exercises on CD
INTERVIEW
BY LORENZA CERBINI
I Language level: [INTERMEDIATE I
CINDY SHEEHAN VS GEORGE WBUSH
A raiz de un tragico suceso, la muerte de su hijo en la guerra
de Irak, Cindy Sheehan se ha convertido en una conocida
activista contra este conflicto y la.polltica exterior de
EE UU. En esta entrevista nos explica sus razones.
I
n the last rwo-and-a-half years
Cindy Sheehan has been trans-
formed from being an anonymous
housewife into an international
celebrity. The reason is simple: her
high-profile opposition to the war in
Iraq. Speak Up recently caught up with1
her in NewYork, where she was signing
copies of her latest book, Peace Mom: A
Mother's Journey through Heartache
2
to
Activism. We asked her when she had
decided to become an activist:
12 SPEAK UP
Cindy Sheehan: About three months
after myson Caseywas killed in Iraq. He
was killed April 4th, 2004 and on July
4th, 2004 was the first time I spoke.
CAMP CASEY
The world's media began to take an
interest in Cindy Sheehan when she
and a group of&iends started camping
outside President George W Bush's
Below: Activist Cindy Sheehan set up a 'Camp Casey'
outside the White House.
ranch in Crawford, Texas. We asked
her to describe her memories of her
first night there:
Cindy Sheehan: It was hot, there was a
lot of press
3
there, about seven of us
spent the night, we just had lawnchairs
4
and one flashlight
5
and a five-gallon
bucket to use to go to the restroom in
6
...
but I remember it was also a very beauti-
ful night. There was a lot ofstars out and
we just stayed up all night talking about
what we were doing.
LIAR! LIAR!
SO what exactly is she trying to obtain
with her campaign?
Cindy Sheehan: I want justice
for my son's death. George
Bush lied? to the country, he
lied to me, he lied to my son.
My son is dead and I want somebody to
be held accountable
8
for that.
The rest of the world often sees the
United States as a violent and danger-
ous country. Does Cindy Sheehan
agree
9
with that view?
Cindy Sheehan: I think that what is the
most dangerous is our government. Our
government is trying to take our rights
away from us, you know, we do have
high crime rates10, but the true enemy of
our country right now is the Bush ad-
ministration.
1 TO CATCH UP WITH: quedar can
2 HEARTACHE: pena 3 A LOT OF PRESS:
muchos medias (periodfsticosJ 4 LAWNCHAIR: silla de
jardfn 5 FLASHLIGHT: linrerna 6 FIVE-GALLON BUCKET TO
USE... IN: cuba can cinco litros de agua para ir aJ
lavabo 7 TO LIE: menrir 8 TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE:
asumir la responsabilidad 9 TO AGREE: estar de acuer-
do 10 HIGH CRIME RATE: alto fndice de criminaJidad.
Internet tiene muchos aspectos positivos, pero tambien
sus lados oscuros. Uno de ellos es la cantidad de cn'menes
que se cometen en la red: de fraudes bancarios a robos
virtuales de tarjetas. Explicamos como protegerse.

ost of us still picture crimi-

nals as daring
1
bank robbers
or sly burglars but, while
such traditional members
of the criminal fraternity
are still with us, today's robber
2
uses elec-
tronics and the internet to strike from
the safety ofhis computer. With the rise
of personal compurers, electronic bank-
ing, email and web sites, has come a new
wave offraud and theft
3
that is growing
so rapidly it is about to surpass
4
drug traf-
ficking as the top priority oflawenforce-
ment agencies in the US - and increas-
ingly around the world.
WHAT IS IDENTITYTHER?
Identity theft is the new crime of the in-
formation age. Most ofus are at riskwith-
out even knowing it, as criminals track
5
anyone with a credit card, bank account
or social security card to collect personal
and financial information that will enable
them to pose as that person and obtain
credit cards, loans
6
and benefits in the vic-
tim's name. By the time most people find
our, it is too late, and their accounts have
been emptied, large debts run uP? against
cards they didn't know existed, and huge
loans taken ours and defaulted on9.
" SPEAK UP
Identity theft is the new crime of the information age.
Many government agencies such as the US Postal
Service advertise ways to prevent such fraud.
In an age of easy credit and slopplo
ID checks, the criminal need not even
be a computer expert to use your ac-
count data and personal details to re-
ceive a credit card and obtain a loan.
Theysimply fill in the forms - with your
details - change the mailing address so
you remain in the dark'\ run up huge
debts, cash in12 a loan and run. While
they recede13 into the darkness, the vic-
tim is left with a financial loss that is po-
tentially enormous. Worse still, your
credit rating14 will be ruined for years.
There are even cases where people have
been bankrupted15 or arrested for acts
carried our in their name.
METHODS AND SCAMS
Identity theft takes many forms, both
online and offline. A rather simple
method is called 'shoulder surfing',
whereby criminals try to catch your PIN
code number as you withdraw money
from the cash machine or try to overhear
your conversation when you give credit
card details to a hotel or car rental com-
pany. The latter happens especially in
holiday areas, but private homes are a
prime target too, with criminals sifting
through your garbage16 in search of old
bank statements17. In addition to this
'dumpster diving', they also steal your
mail, again looking for statements or
any other documentation containing
your personal ID.
1 DARING: arrevido. osado 2 BANK
ROBBER: arracador 3 THEFT: robo
4 TO SURPASS: sobrepasar. superar 5 TO TRACK: per-
seguir 6 LOAN: presramo 7 TO RUN UP DEBTS: acumular
deudas 8 TO TAKE OUT A LOAN: obrener un presramo
9TO DEFAULT ON: dejar de pagar 10 SLOPPY: descui-
dado 11 TO REMAIN IN THE DARK: no enrerarse 12 TO
CASH IN: cobrar 13 TO RECEDE: desvanecerse 14 CREDIT-
RATING: c1asificaci6n de crediro 15 TO BANKRUPT:
arruinar 16 TO SIFT THROUGH YOUR GARBAGE: escudrifiar
en la basura 17 BANK STATEMENT: exrracro bancario
Another infamous method involves
bribing'S waiters, hotel clerks or shop at-
tendants to run your credit card through
a so-called 'skimmer' as they process
your payment. The skimmer doesn't ac-
tually take any money from your ac-
count, but it does record all your credit
card details for later use. The fastest-
growing scams19, however, involve the
internet, whose easy access to informa-
tion has given criminals a relatively risk-
free and anonymous way ofhacking in-
to bank accounts and making with-
drawals. It pays to be particularly wary20
of receiving 'phishing' emails that look
just like a real bank's or credit card com-
pany's site, and request you to 'confirm'
your account details by entering them
into a field on the web site. Falling into
this trap21 means doing the skimmer's
16 SPEAK UP
job. Real banks never approach cus-
tomers this way, but even ifyou receive a
letter or a call from your bank it is best to
veriry things by calling your nearest
branch22 or going there in person.
THE INTERNET
We spoke to Jay Foley, Executive Direc-
tor of the Identity Theft Resource Cen-
ter who advise US citizens on how to
avoid and respond to identity theft. In
her words, "The internet is a wonderful
tool for the thief. He can use it to re-
search victims, scam thousands ofpeo-
ple out of their personal information
and make purchases
23
with their cards.
He does research
24
on what the current
and former identity documents look
like so that he can forge fakes to be used
in his thefts. From his perspective, the
biggest advantage of the internet is that
it affords him a high degree of autono-
my during his operations, as well as
making him more mobile."
WHY IS IT HAPPENING?
Identity theft is now the fastest growing
crime. It grew by 79 per cent between
2002 and 2003, and in the USAalone it
is estimated that someone becomes a
victim to it every 79 seconds. Last year,
over ten million cases were reported in
America, with a combined value of$53
billion. Most victims are ofworking age,
as they are most economically active and
have a greater number ofbank accounts,
plastic cards and mortgages
25
, but it also
happens to pensioners, who are espe-
cially vulnerable to benefit fraud.
The scale is nowsuch that the author-
ities are taking it very seriously. In 2004
President Bush signed The Identity
Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, which
raised the prison sentence for the crime
by two years. More recently, the US cre-
ated the world's first IdentityTheft Task
Force, aimed exclusively at improving
ways of tracking, catching and convict-
ing the intricate international networks
ofcriminals involved in this often high-
ly sophisticated racket.
RESPONSIBILITY
While efforts to catch ID fraudsters and
tighten ID protection are intensifYing,
many believe the answer lies in making
the financial companies responsible for
reimbursing
26
victims. Commercial in-
terests in extending loans has made
them sloppy in terms of security and
identification procedures. It is argued
that greater liabiliti
7
will be an incen-
tive for them to improve security just as
credit card companies have done. The
latter are liable for all but the first $50 of
fraudulent transactions with one of
their cards, so they have developed high-
ly effective security methods designed
to detect and prevent fraud.
Giving those in the best position to
fight this new wave of crime the incen-
tive to do so seems the ultimate solution
to this problem, but in the meantime it
is up to us to protect our personal and
financial data as well as we can.
mm!lI
18 TO BRIBE: sobornar 19 SCAM: esrafa
I
20 WARY: cuidadoso 21 TRAP: rrampa
22 BRANCH: sucursal 23 PURCHASE: compra 24 RE-
SEARCH: invesrigaci6n 25 MORTGAGE: hiporeca 26 TO
REIMBURSE: reembolsar 27 LIABILITY: responsabilidad
SPEAK UP 17
CINEMA
BY MARIAM KHAN
Su versatilidad y el acierto a la hora de escoger papeles
han hecho que el actor Ralph Fiennes este considerado
uno de los mejores interpretes tanto de cine como de
teatro. Su carrera sigue en muy buena racha.
H
e is the ultimate villain' and ro-
mantic idol in one. Ralph Fi-
ennes' chiselled features
2
lend
themselves well to playing am-
biguous characters. Whether
cold and cruel or love-sick and tortured,
he always adds a recognisable, human
touch. His complex portrayal of brutal
SS officer Amon Goth in Schindler's List
(1994) and his multi-layered role as
Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English
Patient (1996) - two ofhis best perform-
ances to date - both deservedly won him
Academy Award nominations.
18 SPEAK UP
This summer he forgoes
J
all his usual
subtlety to reprise his most diabolical
role as Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter
andthe Order ofthe Phoenix. Does he do
his evil character justice'? "When chil-
dren were introduced to Lord Volde-
mort, they looked suitably terrified,
which gave me great gratification," he
said of his first outingS as the Dark Lord
in Harry Potter andthe Goblet ofFire.
FAMILY TIES
Ralph (pronounced 'Rafe') Fiennes, the
eldest ofsixchildren, comes from a high-
profile family. His father is a photogra-
pher, his mother a writer, sisters Martha
and Sophie are a director and a produc-
er. Ofhis brothers, Magnus is a compos-
er, Jacob a gamekeeper
6
andJoseph a suc-
cessful actor. The famous explorer Sir
Ranulph Fiennes is his cousin and he is
eighth cousin to Prince Charles.
Three of the Fiennes siblings have
worked together twice: once on histori-
cal drama Onegin (1999) and recently on
Chromophobia. Martha directed, Ralph
acted and Magnus wrote the score.
STAGING ACAREER
Fiennes started his acting career on stage.
He trained at the Royal AcademyofDra-
matic Art and for years he played at the
Open Air Theatre in London's Regent's
Park. He joined the Royal Shakespeare
Main: Ralph Fiennes with Jennifer Lopez in Maid in
Manhattan. Above (clockwise): The English Patient,
Oscar and Lucinda and The Constant Gardener.
Company in 1988. Sam Mendes direct-
ed him in Troi/us and Cressida in 1990.
His film debut came in 1992 in
Wuthering Heights. He played Heath-
cliff, a role perfectly suited to his talents.
Over the next years, parts in Schindler's
List, Quiz Show (1994), The English Pa-
tient, Oscar andLucinda (1997) and The
End of the Affair (1999) gained him
widespread recognition. Subsequent ap-
pearances in films such as Spider (2002)
and The Constant Gardener (2005) have
consolidated his reputation.
He has also done his share of com-
mercial blockbusters
7
with mixed re-
sults. The misguided
8
attempt to adapt
sixties TV series The Avengers in 1998
failed at the box office. He was not too
disappointed. "I think it's a badge ofho-
nour to have a real flop on your resume,"
he said. On the other hand, romantic
comedy Maid in Manhattan (2002) and
RedDragon (2002), in which he played a
serial killer, both performed respectably.
REAL-LIFE ROMANCES
Fiennes was married for four years to ac-
tress Alex Kingston, best known as Dr
Corday in hit TVseries ER. Last year, he
ended a 10-year relationship with Fran-
cesca Annis, a respected British actress
18 years his senior. To date, he remains
unattached, as the gossip columns
9
glee-
fully report his alleged bachelor antics
10
,
including a highly-publicised mile-high
tryst
11
with a flight attendant and a Bel-
gian hotel swimming pool romp12.
While the tabloids'3 are in a frenzy
about his private life, his professional life
is going strong, on stage and on screen.
He was nominated for a Tony award for
his performance in Faith Healer on
Broadway and he has a number offilms
in the pipeline
1
', including Bernardand
Doris, with Susan Sarandon, and In
Bruges, with Colin Farrell. First, howev-
er, his next appearance as the world's
most evil wizard should not disappoint.
1 VILLAIN: malo de la pelicula 2 CHIS-
ELLED FEATURES: facciones marcadas
3 TO FORGO: renunciar a 4 TO DO JUSTICE: esrar a la alrura
5 OUTING: represenraci6n 6 GAMEKEEPER: guardabosque
7 HE HAS DONE BLOCKBUSTERS: ha acruado rambien en
varias pelfculas de gran presupuesro 8 MISGUIDED: de-
sacerrado 9 GOSSIP COLUMN: prensa amarilla 10 BACHE-
LOR ANTICS: fechorias de solrero 11 MILE-HIGH TRYST:
rener relaciones sexuales en un avi6n 12 ROMP: encuen-
rro sexual 13 TABLOIDS: prensa sensacionalisra (liL, de
pequeno ramano) 141N THE PIPELINE: en proyecro
SPEAK UP 19
(
INTERMEDIATE
I
f you want to see what the world
of tomorrow will look like, then
you should check our' 'NextFest',
an event staged
2
by the cult tech-
nology magazine Wired. Wired
was founded in San Francisco in 1993
and the first two editions of NextFest
were held
3
there. For the third edition,
which took place late last year, the exhi-
20 SPEAK UP
bition's organisers chose New York.
Over 130 exhibitors headed to' the 'Big
Apple', in order to give visitors a taste of
the innovative products and technolo-
gies that are transforming our world.
NextFest is modelled on the famous
1 TO CHECK OUT: ir aver 2 TO
STAGE: organizar 3 TO BE HELO:
celebrarse 4 TO HEAD TO: dirigirse a
TOMORROW'S WORLD
, - BALLROOM DANCE ROBOT
So, you're not a very good dancer?
No problem! Researchers at the
Kosuge and Wang Lab in Japan
developed two battery-powered
prototypes with sensors capable of
anticipating and matching their
partners' steps, In the future this
technology could be used for more
practical tasks. like assisting the
infirm and elderly" with walking.
2 - THE BIOSUIT
And if you're planning to go the moon,
then this is the suit for you.
Ultra-thin layers of flexible materi-
als protect astronauts from pressure
changes, extreme temperatures and
radiation outside the spacecraft.
3-BRAINBALL
The desire to win in sport can be
stressful, but 'Brainball' is different.
In this game [pictured top] two
players sit across a special table
wearing the brainwave-detecting
headbands, The headbands monitor
each player's stress level and report
the data to a computer that directs
the ball away from stressed-out
player, toward the calmer one. So. if
you want to win, you have to relax!
,- THE EXOSUIT
And if you're planning to visit the
depths of the Ocean, then this suit
can handle pressure of up to 1,500
pounds [680 kg) per square inch,
5-REACTRIX
If ever you've wanted to appear in
a TV ad , then now is your chance!
Reactrix [abovel specializes in
creating interactive ads for shopping
malls, movie theaters and other
public spaces. Reactrix projects
advertising images onto the floors
of these spaces in 3D-second
increments. Consumers step on the
images to interact with them, Not
surprisingly, people who participate
actually remember the ads, In the
words of Reactrix, "Advertising is
no longer a spectator sport,"
6 - FUTURE FORCE WARRIOR
Sadly, there will still be wars in
the future. The US military proudly
presents its "fully integrated
modular combat system,"
GLOSSARY ~ R O O M OANCE: baile de
salon TASK: tarea ELDERLY:
anciano ULTRA-THIN LAYER: capa muy fina
BRAIN-WAVE HEADBAND: cima en la cabeza que
capra las ondas cerebrales DEPTHS: fondo TO
HANDLE: resistir TV AD: anuncio de televisi6n
SHOP-PING MALL: centro comercial
THE FACE OF THE FUTURE
'World Fairs' ofthe past and the line-up5
is decidedll international.
HOLIDAYS IN SPACE
At NextFest you will find humanoid ro-
bots with the face of Albert Einstein.
Space traveF also features
B
, with Richard
Branson's Virgin Galactic company al-
ready taking reservations for holidays in
space. All this and more at NextFest...
Don't miss the next one!
5 LINE-UP: lism de exposirores 6 DECID-
EDLY: sumamenre 7 SPACE TRAVEL: viajar
en eI espacio 8 TO FEATURE: rener un lugar desracado
1- GENERAL ELECTRICPLASTIC
In Mike Nichols' memorable 1967 movie
The Graduate there's a scene in which
the young Dustin Hoffman has to choose
a career. A friend of his father advises
him: "Ben, I'm just going to say one word
to you: plastics." 40 years on, plastics are
still seen as a product of the future. but
today its applications are quite different.
The shiny, durable, pigment-infused GE
Lexan Slx plastic from General Electric,
for example, gives manufacturers an
opportunity to eliminate paint from cars
and their factories.
2- NOVOMERPLASTIC
The Novomer company is also in the
plastics market. It is busily making
polymers and plastics from carbon
dioxide and other renewable materials.
Its novel polymers have unique oxygen
and water barrier capabilities that
support food packaging and durable
film applications.
Novomer's materials will be price-
competitive in the specialty plastics
and materials markets.
3-THELAPTOPORCHESTRA
If much of today's music is already
composed on computers, then what will
things be like tomorrow? Well, in this
exhibit, 15 laptop computers have been
put together to produce a "laptop
orchestra," with a conductor podium.
Each laptop, which produces both
sounds and visual shapes, can be
activated or deactivated. This makes
it possible to generate an endless
number of different compositions.
4 - WIND ENERGY
Finding alternative energy sources will
be a key part of the future. With this
in mind, General Electric was present
at NextFest with 1.5 megawatt [MW]
wind turbines that can be used for
producing electricity both for homes
and businesses.
5- THE KRONOS PROJECTOR
If you don't like avideo, you don't need
to change channels, you simply alter
the video! By touching the Kronos
Projector's spandex surface, you can
The futuristic
event NextFest
is staged by
technology
magazine Wired.
E ~
iii t,::I
send the video pLaying under your
paLm backward and forward in time.
6- THEWALKINGROBOT
Who says that robots have to Look Like
machines? The Korean Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology [KAISTI has,
for example. added an Albert Einstein-
Like head [made by Hanson Roboticsl to
the body of Hubo. adynamic biped body
developed in the KAIST lab. This robot is
advanced in both motion and emotion!
THIS 1III0NTH /0ON CD3
BY JULIAN EARWAKER - SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
!Language level: I INTERMEDIATEI
FOLKLORE
I
II
AND THE DRAGONP
Little is known of the real-life St
George. As is the case with King
Arthur, the modern-day myth is prob-
ably an amalgam of different historical
figures. It is probable, however, that he
came from the Near East, or Middle
East. It is said that George was a
skilled cavalryman14 in the Roman
army who rebelled against the emper-
or and consequently lost his head on
23rdApril,303AD.
Hundreds of years later, obscure
George became St George, and his
legend began to spread'5 across the
world. The most powerful part of the
story is undoubtedly the tale of heroic
St George fighting and killing a dan-
gerous dragon and rescuing'6 a beauti-
ful princess, although this is undoubt-
edly apocryphal.
St George has never been a high-
ranking saint. In 1969, the Catholic
Church even downgraded St George
to the lowest category of saints! Nev-
ertheless, he remains patron saint in
John Clemence (Standard
EngLish accent): In my more
flippane moments, with
L..-_-' regard to St George, I al-
ways refer to him as a very early example
of political spin
3
because you see,
George became the patron saint ofEng-
land in 1415, at the time ofthe Battle of
Agincourt. Now we were having a little
bit of trouble
4
with France at the time-
I mean, what changes! - and Henry de-
cided that probably, well I like to sug-
gest that he thought that the patron
saints that we'd held before that were a
bit ofwimps5, consider-
ing the pressure we
were under at
that time, and
he wanted to
look for a more
militant saint, one
that would more easi-
ly identify with al-
legedllEnglish values
7

And St George had

appeared in our
pantheon of saints
from the earlier ex-
perience of those
who went on the
crusades. And he
was always held to
be a very fair-
England fans, who use the flag of St George as
their symbol. Main: St George, a minor Christian
saint, shown slaying a dragon.
San Jorge, el patron de Inglaterra, es una figura discutida. minded charactd, in raj military sense
La misma Iglesia afirma que es un personaje mas ficticio hbe wasbconsidbered 9
to
, dnh
ot
hndlYhb.e fair,
1 S
b d d b'l S J utto every rave an eat Isrep-
que rea. In em argo, ca a 23 e an, an orge se uration ofgiving his riches'o away to the
celebra no solo en Inglaterra, sino tambien en otros paises. poor, which he did before in fact he was
beheaded" for challenging'2 the then
Emperor's, Diocletian's, request, or re-
quirement, that Christianity cease
13
and
that all Roman citizens return to Roman
values. So there were a lot of things
there about him that then appealed
at that time and he's been our patron
saint ever since.
M
OSt people would recognise
the English flag, with its
red cross on a white back-
ground. Some might also
know that this is the cross
ofSt George, the patron saint of Eng-
land, but how many would know any-
thing abour the history of St George?
The flag was an important symbol to
the early Christian crusaders, says John
Clemence, chairman' ofThe Royal So-
ciety of St George, but St George really
only became part of England thanks to
King Henry V:
21 Choose the best option in each case.
A. St George became famous thanks to King
Henry the [FIFTH / SIXTH).
B. Henry believed that the existing saints were
[CORRUPT / WEAK).
C. St George remains a patron saint in
[MANY / VERY FEW) countries.
D. St George [OFTEN / NEVER) visited England.
E. The English flag is often wrongly
associated with (PATRIOTIC / AGGRESSIVE]
behaviour.
F. John Clemence argues that the British
National Party uses ITHE UNION JACK / ST
GEORGE'S FLAG).
G. He believes that flying a flag to show your
national identity (CAN / CANNOTI be offensive.
More exercises on CD
31 Write the correct adjective in the gaps
provided. The first letter of each word has
been given to help you. All examples are
taken directly from the report.
A. The flag was an Ii) symbol for
the early Christian crusades.
B. St George could have been an early
example of (p) spin.
c. Henry was looking for a more lml _
saint.
D. Little is known of the (r) St
George.
E. It is said that George was a [sl _
cavalryman.
F. The English flag has often been
associated with a more (al _
side of Englishness.
Answers
11 A. False, B. True, c. False, D. True,
E. False, F. True, G. False
21 A. Fifth, B. weak, c. many, D. never,
E. aggressive, F. Union Jack, G. cannot
31 A. important, B. political, c. militant,
D. real-life, E. skilled, F. aggressive
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Indicate whether the following sentences
are true or false.
A. According to the narrator, people are
more familiar with the Union Jack than
St George's flag. TRUE/FALSE
B. St George became patron saint because a
more militant figure was required at the
time. TRUE/FALSE
c. St George became patron saint in the
fourteenth century. TRUE/FALSE
D. St George was historically considered to
be both fair and brave. TRUE/FALSE
E. We have a lot of information about the
real-life St. George. TRUE/FALSE
F. He does not hold a very high rank for the
Catholic Church. TRUE/FALSE
G. St George's Day in England is much more
popular than St Patrick's Day in Ireland.
TRUE/FALSE
hooliganism abroad and so on,
but only two or three years ago
we had the Commonwealth
Games here and England, like
it or lump it', England puts a
team in and they need their
own flag and what was very in-
teresting at those games is that you
would see people of all religions and
backgrounds in this country wrapping
themselves in the flag at the success of
the game. And that was very encourag-
ing. It's often said to me that political
movements, British National Party or
whatever, run around
everybody with the flag of St George.
They don't, acruallf3, they run around
with the union So it's unfair, in a
way. It may suitS one or two politicians
not to see a rise ofEnglish consciousness,
given that the United Kingdom is de-
volved
26
, but that's a different matter,
but the flying of a flag to say that you're
English cannot be offensive.
1 CHAIRMAN: presidenre 2 FLIPPANT:
frivolo 3 POLITICAL SPIN: manipula-
ci6n polirica 4 A lITILE BIT OF TROUBLE: un pequeno
problema 5 WIMP: debilucho 6 ALLEGEOLY: supuesra-
menre 7 VALUES: valores 8 HELD TO BE... CHARACTER:
se Ie consideraba un personaje justa 9 BRAVE: valienre
10 RICHES: riquezas 11 TO BEHEAD: decapirar 12 TO
CHALLENGE: desafiar 13 THAT CHRISTIANITY CEASE: que
se abandonara el crisrianismo 14 SKILLED CAVALRY-
MAN: caballero diesrro 15 TO SPREAD: difundir
16 TO RESCUE: rescarar 17 RIDER: jinere 18 ARCHER:
arquero 19 BUTCHER: carnicero 20 I WOULD HAVE
HOPED THAT STAGE: me gusraria creer que hemos
superado esa erapa 21 LIKE IT OR LUMP IT: nos gusre
o no 22 TO THREATEN: amenazar 23 THEY DON'T,
ACTUALLY: en realidad, no es aSI 24 UNION FLAG:
bandera de la Uni6n (la Union Jack, que represen-
ra Inglarerra, Gales, Escocia e Irlanda del None)
25 IT MAY SUIT: puede que convenga 26 DEVOLVED:
descenrralizado
John Clemence: Well, I would have
hoped that we'd got well past that stage
20
.
Yes, of course, it was associated with
1TO FOSTER: fi>lllCm,U
2 BRANCH: r.lI11a
The Royal Society of St
George aims to foster' a love
of England and to spread an
understanding of English history,
traditions and ideals. Its patron is
Queen Elizabeth II and the society
currently has 107 branches
2
worldwide, including in Spain!
For further details, visit
www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com.
INFO
many countries, including
Georgia, Greece and Ger-
many, as well as Lithuania,
Palestine and Portugal. St
George is also the patron
saint of riders
17
, soldiers and
archers
18
, farmers, butchers'9
and Boy Scouts.
Wherever he was really born, St
George was certainly not English and
never set foot in England. Perhaps this
explains why St George's Day (23rd
April) has never become as popular
with the English as St Patrick's Day is
with the Irish. Or is it just natural
English modesty and reserve? There is
another factor: the English flag has too
often been associated with a more ag-
gressive side ofEnglishness. But that is
changing, says John Clemence:
Tacoma es una ciudad joven, con poco mas de un siglo de
existencia, hasta ahora a la sombra de la carismatica Seattle.
Sin embargo, esta ciudad esta poniendose de moda gracias
a una industria potente y el trabajo de artistas de talento.
S
eattle, Washington in the
USA's Pacific Northwest is
known the world over, thanks
to grunge music, Boeing air-
craft, Starbucks coffee, Ama-
zon.com and Microsoft. Relatively few
people around the world have heard of
its neighboring' city, Tacoma, which has
tended to stand in Seattle's shadow
2
Yet
26 SPEAK UP
Above: The NewTacoma Convention Center.
Opposite: Tacoma at night (top); Tacoma Art Museum
Icentrel; and a panel from Dale Chihuly's Bridge of
Glass and the Bridge and Museum of Glass.
all that appears to be changing. Histori-
cally, Tacoma should have been the ma-
jor city and Seattle the minor one. It was
founded as a logging and shipping set-
tlemene in 1864. Its unusual name was
taken from 'Tacobet' - the Native
American name for Mount Rainier,
clearly visible some 50 miles (80 kilo-
metres) to the southeast. When Tacoma
was chosen as the western terminus of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, it even
became known as the 'City of Destiny'.
Yet this was not to be. Jane Shafer, a
volunteer at the Washington State His-
tory Museum, says that "Seattle had bet-
ter publicity people
4
" and Tacoma got
left behinds. This continued in the twen-
tieth century. She grew Up6 in the town
and remembers what it was like when
she was a teenager:
Jane Shafer (Standard
American accent): There were
several department stores
7
in downtownTacoma, all of
which are gone now. A big change came
along when they built a mallS to the
south ofhere... Tacoma Mall, I guess it's
called, it may have a new name by now.
But the department stores disappeared
one by one! And for a long time the main
street in downtown Tacoma, Broadway,
was just empty.
1 NEIGHBORING: vecino 2 TO STAND
IN SOMEONE'S SHADOW: ser eclipsado
por 3 LOGGING AND SHIPPING SETILEMENT: cenero de
exploraci6n foresral y rranspone maririmo
4 PUBLICITY PERSON: direcror 0 agenee de publicidad,
relaciones pubJicas 5 TO GET LEFT BEHIND: quedarse
arras 6 TO GROW UP: crecer 7 DEPARTMENT STORE:
grandes almacenes 8 MALL: cenero comercial
31 What happened in Tacoma some years
ago, according to Jane Shafer?
A. A new mall meant the end of the smaller
department stores.
B. The city became more prosperous with
the new mall.
c. Tacoma's main street became trendy
because of its new shops.
21 Tacoma became known as the City of
Destiny
A. because many people from the East
dreamed of going there.
B. as it was the western terminus for the
North Pacific Railroad.
c. because it had very good "publicity
people".
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
AI Choose the best option in each case.
1I How do Tacoma and Seattle compare?
A. Tacoma and Seattle are equally well
known.
B. Tacoma is better known than its
neighbour Seattle.
c. Tacoma has been overshadowed by
its neighbour Seattle.
south towards Tacoma. As often hap-
pens in 'post-industrial society', the
artists were the first people to take ad-
vantage of the city's low-rent spaces10.
The local authorities also decided it
was time to clean up the 'City of Des-
tiny' and make downtown more attrac-
~ 9 PROPERTY PRICES: precio de la
~ propiedad inmobiliaria 10 LOW-
RENT SPACE: viviendas de a1quiler bajo
- - - ' - ' - _ . ' ' - ~ ' ' ' ' - , - n:::.l.,i'"::>-..ar: ~ ~
Below: the Murray Morgan Bridge and Tacoma's
Union Station building. where native glass artist
Dale Chihuly has created several stunning
installations (pictured on previous pages).
FROM GANG WARFARE
Seattle became particularly trendy in
the 1990s and this actually helped its
less fashionable neighbor. When prop-
erty prices
9
in Seattle became increas-
ingly expensive, people started looking
41 Tacoma's revival began to take place
when
A. property in neighbouring Seattle became
too expensive.
B. people realized what the city's downtown
had to offer.
c. Boeing built their factory there.
51 Penny Grellier argues that
A. Tacoma has always been a more
interesting city than Seattle.
B. the city was dangerous and only became
attractive recently.
c. artists can't afford to live anywhere else
except Tacoma.
61 What has happened to Tacoma in recent
years?
A. Its population has grown and a new
cultural life has started up.
B. Some industry has shifted back from
Seattle.
c. It has become something of a
futuristic city.
71 How does Penny Grellier describe the
newarchitecture?
A. Very much influenced by the glass works
of Murano and Venice.
B. Some of the best new buildings in the
US are here.
c. A mixture of modern art and restored
old factory buildings.
Continued overleaf
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
BI Combine the different companies with
each of the American cities where they are
based. Those referring to Seattle are
mentioned at the start of the report.
A. Seattle
B. San Francisco (Silicon Valleyl
c. NewYork City
D. Chicago
Starbucks Sara Lee
McDonalds Apple
Yahoo Boeing
MTV Polo Ralph Lauren
Morgan Stanley IBM
Google Amazon
CI Insert the correct past tense or past
participle verb form in each case. The first
letter of each word is given to help.
A. Seattle is lkl the world over.
B. Its unusual name was ItI from
Tacobet'.
c. When Tacoma was lei as the
western terminus...
D. She IgJ up in the town and
remembers what it was like...
E. Seattle (bJ particularly trendy
in the 1990s.
F. Tacoma (b) as a really industrial
city.
G. The museum areas are III by
the colorful Bridge of Glass.
OJ Seattle is the largest city in Washington
State, but its capital is Olympia. Match these
other US capital cities with their
corresponding states.
A. Arizona 1. Providence
B. Mississippi 2. Indianapolis
c. Rhode Island 3. Austin
D. Ohio 4. Phoenix
E. New Mexico 5. Jackson
F. Arkansas 6. Santa Fe
G. Texas 7. Little Rock
H. Indiana 8. Columbus
Answers
AI 1c, 2B,3A,4A,5B,6A, 7c
BI Seattle: Starbucks, Boeing, Amazon
San Francisco: Apple, Yahoo, Google
NewYork City: Polo Ralph Lauren,
MTV, Morgan Stanley
Chicago: Sara Lee, McDonalds, IBM
CI A. known, B. taken, c. chosen,
D. grew, E. became, F. began,
G.linked
OIA4,B5,c1,D8,E6,F7,G3,H2
More exercises on CD
tive to visitors, explains Penny Grellier,
volunteer at the Tacoma Art Museum:
Penny Grellier (Standard
American accent): Well, Taco-
ma began as a really indus-
trial city and it hasn't been
until. .. probably only 10 years ago
that it really wasn't a very attractive area
to come to. It's getting a lot better be-
cause it used to be fairly dangerous,
there was a lot of gang activity in Taco-
ma. And so people weren't focused on
things like art, they were focused on not
being shot and things like that! So...
TO MODERN ART
Today Tacoma has a thriving" tourist
industry, focused on the Museum Dis-
trict around Pacific Avenue. Restau-
rants, bars and shops nowfill the ware-
houses
12
that stood empty13 and aban-
doned for almost half a century. The
population of the city has expanded to
over 200,000. The museum areas are
linked by the colorful Bridge of Glass,
which features the work of world-fa-
A lively statue situated at the entrance to Tacoma's
Union Station building. When Tacoma was chosen
as the western terminus of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. it became known as the 'City of Destiny'.
mous local glass artist Dale Chihuly.
The bridge also links the city's down-
town and port areas. Penny Grellier
says that the new Tacoma hasn't for-
gotten its industrial past:
Penny Grellier: But in the architecture
that's going up now, you see this kind of
marriage between modern art, or archi-
tecture, andwhat already exists here. For
instance, the design ofthis museum, the
architect, Antoine Predock, wanted to
make it a very modern structure. Kind
of like
1
': here's the new Tacoma, and
then also include a lot ofwindows, not
only for natural light, but so that you
could see what came before, all these
old factory15 buildings and the layour
16
ofthe city.
11 THRIVING: florecieme 12 WARE-
HOUSE: almacen 13 EMPTY: vado
14 KIND OF LIKE: por as! decido 15 FACTORY: fabrica
16 LAYOUT: disrribuci6n
Dickens Cames Alive
A
new attraction allows visitors to step back in time
1
to Victorian Eng-
land, complete with sounds and smells. Dickens World (www.dick-
ensworld.co.uk) in Kent features streets, alleys2, courtyards
3
, docks',
shops and a restaurant, all themed around one of Britain's
best-loved authors, Charles Dickens. The Haunted House is
home to the ghosts of Ebenezer Scrooge and children can play
in 'Fagin's Dens'. Built on the site of the former Royal Dock- .... 'U<
yard which employed Dickens' father, .4-==-,.?l"."
Dickens World is situat-
ed at Chatham Mar
itime, a mile from
Chatham and
Rochester stations
and 15 minutes
from the new Eu
rostar link at Ebs
fleet, which also
opens this month.
ADAY OF REMEMBRANCE
CITY LIGHTS
: I 'i'
BY MARIAM KHAN
LIVERPOOL GALA
Liverpool's neo-classical St
George's Hall reopens, appropri-
ately, on St George's Day, after a
1O-year, 23 million makeover
9
.
The Grade 1listed building10 has
been painstakingli
1
restored and
has a newvisitor centre which will
offer 'living history tours' to tell the
story of the hall. Built from 1842-
1856, it was avenue for musical
events and also housed the Civil
and Crown Courts12. Queen Victo-
ria considered it "worthy of
Athens." The gala event on 23
April will include a concert in the
Small Concert Room and a city-
wide bell-ringing13 symphony.

On 25 April, Australia celebrates
ANZAC Day, its most important
national occasion. It marks the
anniversary of the first military action
fought by Australia and New Zealand
in the First World War. On that date in
1915, the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps (ANZAC] landed at
Gallipoli, hoping to eliminate Turkey
from the war. Instead, they met with
fierce resistance and both sides
suffered many casualties
6
until the
allied forces were eventually evacu-
ated. Since 1916, Australia has com-
memorated lives lost not only in the
First World War, but also in all sub-
sequent military operations involving
Australians. Sydney's celebrations this
year start with a Dawn Service
7
at
4.30am at the Cenotaph at Martin
Place. Events include a wreathS-laying
service and the ANZAC Day March.
GUITAR TOWN
Enormous guitar sculptures are
popping upl' all over Austin,
Texas. The 3m tall statues will
appear in front of the city's land-
marks until autumn 2007 as part
of a project
known as
Austin Guitar-
Town. Present-
ed by Gibson
Guitar, the
brightly-paint-
ed guitars dis-
play the work
of local artists
and will be
auctioned off
for charity.
Well-known
actors and mu-
sicians including Dennis Quaid,
Billy Bob Thornton and ZZ Top
(pictured] have joined in support.
1 TO STEP BACK IN TIME: rerroceder
en eI riempo 2 ALLEY: callej6n
3 COURTYARD: pario 4 DOCK: muelle 5 DEN: guarida
6 CASUALTY: baja, perdida 7 SERVICE: ceremonia
8 WREATH: corona 9 MAKEOVER: resrauraci6n
10 GRADE 1 LISTED BUILDING: edificio declarado de
parrimonio nacional 11 PAINSTAKINGLY: laboriosa-
mente 12 COURT: juzgado 13 BELL-RINGING:
campanalogfa 14 TO POP UP: aparecer
SPEAK UP 31
32 SPEAK UP
-);I C Escher's
Tower of Sabel

COCAINE GLUE
Automated translators, like Babel fish
(this strange name comes from Douglas
Adams' science fiction comedy, The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
to offer instant solutions. But here's a
typical computer translation: "I apolo-
gize for my (bad) English: I am Italian
and as it's know, nobody is perfect.
Kindly, is it comprehensible what do I
have written?" In Brazil's Fortaleza Air-
port, you'll find Bleedint Jar and Co-
caine Glue' on the drinks menu: mean-
ingless translations for jar ofsangria and
Genesis, Chapter 11 And the whole earth was of one language, and
of one speech.... And they said. Let us build us a city and a tower, whose
top may reach unto heaven.... And the Lord said, Behold, the people have
all one language; and now nothing will be restrained from them. Let us go
down, and there confound their language. that they may not understand
one another's speech, So the Lord scattered them abroad: and they left off
to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord
did there confound the language of all the earth.
LANCUACE
THE FUTURE OF
ILanguage level: IINTERMEDIATE I
el ingles el idioma que nos conducid. a tiempos
prebabelicos, cuando la humanidad hablaba un mismo
lenguaje? De momento, aseguran que una quinta parte
de los habitantes del planeta maneja bien esta lengua.
BY WILLIAM SUTTON
A
fifth of the planet speaks Eng-
lish competently. Another
sixth is learning. 80 per cent of
computer information is in
English, as are Deutsche Bank
board meetings'.
Yet the notion of one language for all
sounds familiar. Remember Genesis,
chapter II? Humans build the Tower of
Babel up to heaven. God doesn't like it.
He replaces the single language that let
us cooperate with today's multilingual
babble
2
Can English recapture mono-
lingual paradise?
Coca Cola. Worst still, Pepsi's logo,
Come alive with Pepsi, was translated in-
to Chinese as "Pepsi brings dead ances-
tors
5
back to life."
FALSE FRIENDS
It's easy to be fooled by 'Spanglish' ex-
pressions. US immigration has created
many hybrids. Hispanic communities
have produced dictionaries to help you
suifear the web, deletear a document and
vacuumear your carpet
6
There's even a
Hollywood film called Spanglish.
Footingmeans basis in English (eg 'on
a firm footing'); if you exercise by run-
ning, you are jogging. You cannot play
basket or volley; the spons are basketball
and volleyball.
CONFUSING MIXTURES
The French love inventing nouns. Un
parking is a carpark and un relooking is a
makeover', while un destockage is a clear-
ance sales. These are not English, but
'Franglais' . The Dutch learn English in
elementary school and watch un-
dubbed
9
films. Yet even they make mis-
takes. "That can," instead of
"That's possible." "I hate
you welcome," for "I
welcome you." A
Dutch prime minis-
ter confused under-
taker'O with entrepre-
neur. The University of
Delft awards" a large
sausage for the worst 'Dung-
lish' errors. (WOrstis Dutch for sausage.)
NEWENGLISHES
Linguists speak of New Englishes: the
healthy12 diversity ofworld English. But,
as the pressure to learn English grows,
these half-baked'3 versions are prolifer-
ating. Computers can't learn for us - not
yet. With untrustworthy'4 translation
engines, dodgy'5 internet courses and
troublesome'6 false friends, the mono-
lingual dream still sounds like the bab-
ble ofBabel.
1 BOARO MEETING: reunion de la
junta directiva 2 BABBLE: parloteo
J BLEEDING: sangrante 4 GLUE: pegamento 5 ANCES-
TOR: antepasado 6 TO VACUUM YOUR CARPET: pasar la
aspiradora por la a1fombra 7 MAKEOVER: reestructu-
racion 8 CLEARANCE SALE: liquidacion 9 UNDUBBED:
sin doblar 10 UNDERTAKER: director de funeraria
11 TO AWARD: premiar 12 HEALTHY: saludable
1J HALF-BAKED: a medias. mal concebido (lit.,
medio crudo) 14 UNTRUSTWORTHY: pOCO fiable
15 DODGY: dudoso 16 TROUBLESOME: molesto
SPEAK UP 33
N
ew York City is home to
many amazing' things, not
least Art Deco architecture.
Examples range
2
from the
world-famous Chrysler and
Empire State Buildings to less well-
known murals and interiors. Glen Lein-
er, executive director ofthe Art Deco So-
ciety of New York, runs
3
tours designed
to promote awareness
4
of this unique
style, but he is also actively involved in
preservation campaigns.
The term Art Deco wasn't in fact
coined
s
until 1966, but it referred to a
style that had come into existence in
1925, at a Paris exhibition, the Exposi-
tion Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et
Industriels Modernes. The modern style
soon crossed the Atlantic, to the United
States, which was enjoying an econom-
ic boom in the 1920s. That came to a
dramatic halt with the Wall Street Crash
of 1929 but, remarkably, says Leiner,
that didn't spell the end
6
ofArt Deco:
Glen Leiner (Standard
American accent): We, of
course, had the Great De-
pression, 1929, that started
right here in NewYork, and the response
to the Great Depression in this country
consisted of the New Deal. The New
Deal programs that were initiated un-
der President Roosevelt, beginning in
1933, and I'd like to think that that's a
very special American contribution to
the world ofArt Deco because during
34 SPEAK UP
those years the government sponsored a
lot of architecture projects: bridges,
highways, public housing?, schools,
hospitals, a whole wealth of architec-
tures was sponsored and funded by the
government and it happened allover the
country, not just in NewYork or the big
cities. Civil works projects were initiat-
ed, we had waterworks\ hydroelectric
dams'o, harbors'" just a whole range of
types of projects were begun between
1933 and the start ofWorld War Two
and that was all done under the scope'2
of the New Deal government programs
and the aesthetics that were dicta.ted
by those programs were distinctly
American. We had a lot of buildings
that might look like the Novecento
architecture that you see in Milan and
might be similar to the French Art
Deco, but it was very economical, very
rational, very clean.
THE EMPTY STATE BUILDING
The Empire State Building, for exam-
ple, opened in 1931, but many of its
offices remained unoccupied until the
Second World War - so much so in
fact that it was nicknamed'3 'The
1 AMAZING: increfble 2 TO RANGE:
variar 3 TO RUN: organizar 4 AWARE-
NESS: consciencia 5 TO COIN: acufiar 6 THAT OION'T
SPELL THE ENO: no significo el fin 7 PUBLIC HOUSING:
vivienda de proteccion oficial 8 A WHOLE WEALTH OF
ARCHITECTURE: un gran nillnero de obras de arte
arquitectonicas 9 WATERWORKS: central depuradora
10 DAM: presa, dique 11 HARBOR: puerto 12 UNDER
THE SCOPE: bajo el ambito
;,

bronze and glass in innovative ways that
had not previously ever been done. So
he's one ofmy heroes.
Donald Deskey was a great
designer. He created Radio
CityMusic Hall at Rockefeller
Center. He not only designed
the interior space, but he also
designed all of the furnish-
ings
17
that went into the space
and he was an industrial de-
signer of that time
18
, and one
of the great industrial design-
ers in America, so he's very important.
13 TO NICKNAME: apodar 14 ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY: por rodo el pais
15 BRAVE: valienre 16 BRICK: ladriJlo 17 FURNISHINGS:
mobiliario, accesorios 18 TIME: epoca
Empty State Building'. Art Deco ef-
fectively came to an end with the
advent of the war, but the
buildings are still standing.
In conclusion, we asked
Leiner to name the most im-
portant Art Deco architects:
Glen Leiner: Ralph Walker is
a great American architect who
did many, many, many build-
ings for the telephone compa-
ny and, because the telephone
company was allover the country'4, his
architecture appears in many, many
cities and these are great, innovative,
brave'S, courageous works of architec-
ture using materials like brick
16
and
More exercises on CD
41 Indicate which of these buiLdings does
not correspond to the architecturaL styLe.
A. ART DECO: Bauhaus Archive, ChrysLer
Building, Christ the Redeemer
B. BAROQUE: Manchester Town Hall,
St Paul's Cathedral, Piazza San Pietro
c. GOTHIC: Notre Dame, Burgos Cathedral,
Bellas Artes Palace
D. RENAISSANCE: St Peter's BasiLica,
CoLogne CathedraL, The EscoriaL
E. ROMANESQUE: Santiago CathedraL,
Winchester Cathedral, Toledo Cathedral
21 Place the topics into the order in which
they appear in the original report.
A. The Great Depression.
B. The Radio City Music Hall
c. The Art Deco Society of New York
D. The empty Empire State Building
E. President Roosevelt
F. Ralph Walker, the architect.
G. The Paris International Exhibition.
31 Are the following sentences true or faLse?
A. New York City has many Art Deco
buildings. TRUE/FALSE
B. Art Deco coincided first with an economic
upturn in the USA. TRUE/FALSE
c. Art Deco buildings were mainly built on
America's east coast. TRUE/FALSE
D. The Art Deco movement only lasted till
about 1939. TRUE/FALSE
E. Donald Deskey designed many buildings
for the telephone company.
TRUE/FALSE
F. He was also one of America's great
industrial designers. TRUE/FALSE
Answers
11 A. 1960s, B. drawback, c. heLped, D. mainly
public, E. particularly, F. fifteen
21 c, G, A, E, D, F, B
31A. True, B. True,c. False,D. True,
E. False, F. True
41 A. Bauhaus Archive, B. Manchester Town
Hall, c. BelLas Artes Palace, D. Cologne
Cathedral, E. Toledo Cathedral
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Choose which of the options is correct.
A. The term Art Deco was first used in the
(1920s/1960s!.
B. The Wall Street Crash was a (FATAL BLOW /
DRAWBACK) for the Art Deco movement.
c. The New Deal (HELPED / DIDN'T HELP) the Art
Deco style architectural programmes.
D. The government sponsored (ONLY PRIVATE /
MAINLY PUBLIC! building projects.
E. Glen Leiner says that Art Deco architect-
ure was (PURELY / PARTICULARLY) American.
F. The Empire State Building remained
empty for around (FIFTEEN / THIRTY! years.
STYLE WATCH
LINGERIE GUIDE
FOR MEN
Aguide to buying lin-
gerie11 is available
aimed at
12
men. It has
practical tips13 on
sizes and styles and
gives invaluable ad-
vice on buying the
right gift
14
for wives
and girlfriends. Tips
include reminders15
that "your partner is
NOT a porn star" and
will probably appre-
ciate something
simple. The guide recommends
matching sets, comfortable fabrics
and sexywomen's shorts. Read it
at www.breasttalk.co.uk.
ORIENTAL SCENT
Theo FennellScent
5
is a new
worldwide exclusive at Harrods.
A bold
6
and sensual perfume,
Theo Fennell Scent is described
as a "well-structured classical
Chypre-Oriental fragrance that
combines primary powerful notes
of saffron
7
,lill, rose and orchid."
The scent comes in an attractive
15ml glass bottle resting in a silver
cup, debuting
9
the
Theo Fennell Scent
Silver Collection.
Priced at 390, it
is also available
online from www.
harrods. com.
I 'i'
NEWCHOOS
This delicate high-heeled
1o
shoe
is called Kathryn and features in
Jimmy Choo's newcollection.
Crafted in grained goat leather,
it has a pretty criss-cross detail
at the toe and ankle. Kathryn is
available in black only and has
a 85mm high heel. Jimmy
Choo now has two
stores in Spain, in
Madrid and
Puerto Banus.
_
1 TO HEAD FOR: dirigirse hacia
I .'
2 HARMFUL: nocivo 3 TO MATCH:
hacer juego 4 TREND: rendencia 5 SCENT: esencia
6 BOLO: arrevido 7 SAFFRON: azafr<in 8 LILY: lirio
9 TO DEBUT: presenrar 10 HIGH-HEELED: de racon
alto 11 LINGERIE: ropa inrerior femenina 12 AIMED
AT: dirigido a, pensado para 13 TIP: consejo
14 GIFT: regalo 15 REMINDER: recuerdo
-
-
-
McCartney, Paco Rabanne, Givenchy,
Lanvin and Balenciaga all sport Darth
Vader-style capes, Storm Trooper
trousers, plastics, metallic finishes
and chain-metal shift dresses.
to block 98 per cent ofharmfuF UV
light. Available in a soft polyester-
and-cotton mix or quick-drying ny-
lon, the sunsuits have matching
3
le-
gionnaire caps to protect the face and
neck. Prices start from 21.95 (32)
for the sunsuits and 9.95 (l4.50)
for the hats, plus delivery. Vis-it
www.beachfactory.comfordetails.
The future is here. Fashion trends
4
for spring 2007 take their inspiration
from futuristic sources like Star Wars,
Blade Runner and classic science-
fiction shows. Collections by Stella
P
lanning your summer holi-
day with the kids? If you are
headed for
1
the seaside, the
Beach Factory sells a range of
children's swimwear and beach acces-
sories with built-in UV protection.
Sunsuits with a UPF50+ from Sposh
and Lion in the Sun come in a variety
of colourful, fun designs and are said
UV Sunsuits
lor lids
FUTURE FASHION
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ENTERTAINMENT leON CDS
BY MARKWORDEN STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
ILanguage level: IADVANCEDI
JOE BONAMASSA
Nino prodigio de la guitarra, 10 descubri6 nada mas y
nada menos que B.B. King. A los doce anos ya daba
conciertos en directo y hoy, sin cumplir los treinta, es
una estrella del 'blues'. Entrevistamos a Joe Bonamassa.
E
ven though he isn't yet 30, rock
and bluesman Joe Bonamassa
is one of the most respected
guitarists around. BLues wax
magazine voted him 'Blues
Artist of the Year' two years in a row',
while he was recently appointed to the
Board of Directors
2
of the Blues Foun-
dation. Bonamassa grew up in Ithaca,
NewYork, and first picked up a guitar
at the age offour - which wasn't surpris-
ing, seeing as
3
his father owned a guitar
shop. But, as he explained when he
met with Speak Up, his first break
4
came
at the age of12:
Joe Bonamassa (Standard
American accent): I was dis-
covered by BB King when I
was 12 and I was his open-
ing actS and I think his tour manager
said, "Hey, I think your opening act
tonight is a 12-year-old kid!" So he came
out and saw me and he invited me on a
tour that summer and... and he really is
the reason why I'm sitting here. I mean,
without BB King and a few other peo-
ple, you know, I wouldn't have gotten the
big break that I got, you know, back at
that age and I wouldn't have had the ca-
reer I've had, so it's like I really do owe
him
6
.. when I try to pass that same kind
of open-door, giving kind of mentality
down
7
to like my opening acts, if they're
good, and... and I try to help as many
people as I can because I was helped by
like the best.
THE RELEVANCE OF THE BLUES
And yet Joe Bonamassa is no tradition-
alist, as is evident from his latest album
YOu 6' Me, which was released on the
Provogue label and distributed by
Edel. In addition to Bonamassa's own
compositions, this 12-track set con-
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Answers
11 A. False, B. True, c. True, D. True,
E. False, F. True
21 A. in, B. to, c. up, D. as, E. on, F. back, G. with
31 A. soon, B. long, c. far, D. good,
E. well, F. yet
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31 The article uses the expressions, 'seeing
as' and 'as far as', Write the correct word in
the gaps to match these expressions with
'as' in context.
A. As as he arrives, we'll leave for
the party.
B. We can go in, as as you don't
mind sitting in the front row.
c. As __as I'm concerned, there's
nothing we can do to help him.
D. This is as as the weather gets
here; that's all the sun you can expect.
E. As as lecturing, I do journalistic
work from home - I'm a busy man.
F. As __, I haven't found anyone to
replace him, but I'll keep looking!
on as
up to
with
back
from
of in
21 Insert the correct preposition/conjunction
from the list below, All sentences appear
in the original report. Two of the words do
not apply,
A. BLuesWax magazine voted him 'Blues
Artist of the Year' two years __a row.
B. Bonamassa was recently appointed __
the board of directors...
c. He grew__in Ithaca, NewYork.
D....which wasn't surprising, seeing __
his father owned a guitar shop.
E. SO he came out and saw me and he invited
me __a tour that summer...
F. I wouldn't have gotten the big break that I
got, you know, __at that age...
G. All the music that's on the radio can be
linked the blues.
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
11 Indicate whether these statements are
true or false.
A. Joe Bonamassa was recently made sole
director of the Blues Foundation.
TRUE/FALSE
B. He got his first great opportunity when he
was still a boy. TRUE/FALSE
C. He is very grateful to all those who helped
him at the beginning of his career.
TRUE/FALSE
D. He doesn't playa traditional type of blues
music. TRUE/FALSE
E. His album You & Me includes all his own
material. TRUE/FALSE
F. He says that artists like Government Mule
also playa kind of unconventional blues.
TRUE/FALSE
1 IN A ROW: seguidos 2 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS: junta directiva 3 SEEING
AS: ya que 4 BREAK: oponunidad 5 OPENING ACT:
telonero 6 I REALLY DO OWE HIM: Ie debo muchfsimo
7 I TRY TO PASS DOWN: intento transmitir la misma
mentalidad abiena y generosa 8 TO LINK: conectar,
relacionar 9 aUOTE, UNaUOTE: entre comillas
10 STUFF: (aquf) musica 11 TO TRACE BACK
(TO): remontarse a 12 OUTSIDE THE BOX:
no convencional
James Brown to Sly Stone to like The
Commodores, the Funkadelic, to Dr
Dre, to 50 Cent, to Boom! Blues. All of
this stuWOyou could trace back". I think
it's the most relevant music that we have,
as far as being the grandfather, or the
great-grandfather, ofwhat we listen to
today, bur I think, as far as it being an art
form today, I think the art in it is slowly
kind of dissipating, which is... what I'm
trying to do, is remind people that you
can still do something relevant with it,
you know, and I think guys like John
Mayer are good' cause he's trying to revi-
talise it, and there's Derek Trucks and
Government Mule and all this stuff
that's doing blues-based rock stuff that's
still blues, but it's, you know, outside the
box'2, and trying to keep it in the media,
which is the fans going, "Hey, there's
something new and exciting."
tains covers of songs by blues legends
like Charley Patton and Sonny Boy
Williamson, but there's also one of a
song by Led Zeppelin. For Bonamassa,
there's a connection:
Joe Bonamassa: I can trace the origins
of hip-hop and heavy metal, rock'n'roll:
all the music that's on the radio today can
be linked
8
with the blues. You start with
Robert Johnson, who influenced Mud-
dy Waters, who influenced Eric Clap-
ton, who influenced Jimmy Page, who
made the first, quote unquote
9
, 'heavy
metal record', which kind of influenced
Black Sabbath, who kind of influenced
Metallica, who kind of influenced Sys-
temofa Down. Boom! Then you go, you
know, Muddy Waters to BB King to
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SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT
he had adored both the ges-
ture
24
and the plant and
thanked me by throwing her
arms around my neck and kiss-
ing me on the lips. Then she
promptlys went on to kill my gift to her
with an assassin's coldhearted efficiency.
Not that she was trying to; if anything,
she nurtured
26
the poor thing to death.
Jenny didn't exactly have a green
thumb
2
? Working on the assumption
that all living things require water, but
apparently forgetting that they also need
air, she began flooding
28
the dieffen-
bachia on a daily basis.
"Be careful not to ovetwater it," I had
warned.
"Okay," she had replied, and then
dumped on
29
another gallon.
The sicker the plant got, the more she
doused
30
it, until finally it just kind of
We began every morning poring over
12
the newspapers, seeing how our stories
were played
13
and how they stacked up
to the competition
14
. We circled, under-
lined, and clipped
1s
with abandon16.
But on this morning, Jen-
ny's nose was not in the news
pages but in the classified sec-
tion. When I stepped closer, I
saw she was feverishly'? circling
beneath the heading
"PETS-DOGS."
"Uh," I said in that new-hus-
band, still-treading-gently18
voice. "Is there something I should
kn
~
ow.
She did not answer.
"J J '" en- n ~
"It's the plant," she finally said, her
voice carrying a slight
19
edge
20
ofdesper-
ation.
"The plant?" I asked.
"That dumb
2
' plant," she said. "The
one we killed."
The one we killed? I wasn't about to
press the poine2, but for the record
23
it
was the plant that I bought and she
killed. I had surprised her with it one
night, a lovely large dieffenbachia with
emerald-and-cream variegated leaves.
"What's the occasion?" she'd asked. But
there was none. I'd given it to her for no
reason other than to say, "Damn, isn't
married life great?"
JOHN GROGAN
e were young. We were
in love. We were rol-
licking' in those sub-
lime early days ofmar-
riage when life seems
about as good
as life can get. We could not
leave well enough alone
2
.
And so on aJanuary evening
in 1991, my wife of fifteen
months and I ate a quick dinner
together and headed off t0
3
an-
swer a classified ad
4
in the PaLm
Beach Post.
Why we were doing this, I
wasn't quite sure. A few weeks earlier I
had awoken just after dawns to find the
bed beside me empty. I got up and found
Jenny sitting in her bathrobe
6
at the glass
table on the screened porch? ofour little
bungalow, bent over
8
the newspaper
with a pen in her hand.
here was nothing unusual
about the scene. Not only was
the PaLm Beach Post our local
paper, it was also the source
9
of
half of our household income.
We were a two-newspaper-career cou-
ple. Jenny worked as a feature writer'o in
the Post's "Accent" section; I was a news
reporter at the competing'1 paper in the
area, the South FLorida Sun-SentineL,
based an hour south in Fort Lauderdale.
Ellibro del periodista John Grogan, en el que rinde
tributo a su perro labrador, Marley, ~ ha convertido en
un superventas en Estados Unidos. Este es un extracto
de un relata sabre el amor a los hijos y a los animales.
40 SPEAK UP
melted
31
into an oozing
32
heap. I looked
at its li mp33 skeleton in the pot by the
window and thought, Man, someone
who believes in omens
34
could have a
field day with
35
this one.
Now here she was, somehow making
the cosmic leap36 oflog-
ic from dead flora in a
pot to living fauna in
the pet classifieds
37
. Kill
a plant, buy a pupplB.
Well, of course it made
perfect sense.
I looked more close-
ly at the newspaper in
front of her and saw
that one ad in particular seemed to have
caught her fancy39. She had drawn three
fat red stars beside it. It read: "Lab pup-
pies, yellow. AKC purebred
40
. All shots
41
.
Parents on premises
42
."
"So," I said, "can you run this plant-
pet thing by me one more time
43
?,'
"You know," she said, looking up. "I
tried so hard and look what happened. I
can't even keep a stupid houseplant alive.
I mean, howhard is that? All you need to
do is water the damn"
thing."
Then she got to the
real issue: "If I can't
even keep a plant alive,
how am I ever going to
keep a baby alive?" She
looked like she might
start cryIng.
The BabyThing, as
I called it, had become a constant in Jen-
ny's life and was getting bigger by the
day'5. When we had first met, at a small
newspaper in western Michigan, she was
just a few months out of college
46
, and
1 TO ROLLICK: diverrirse 2 TO LEAVE WELL
ENOUGH ALONE: dejar las cosas como
esran 3 TO HEAO OFF TO: ponerse a 4 CLASSIFIEO AO: anun-
cio de la secci6n de Clasiftcados 5 OAWN: amanecer
6 BATHROBE: albornoz 7 SCREENEO PORCH: porche acris-
ralado 8 TO BENO OVER: inclinarse 9 SOURCE: Fueme
10 FEATURE WRITER: arriculisra 11 COMPETING: rival
12 TO PORE OVER: esrudiar, escudriiiar 13 HOW... WERE
PLAYED: como se habfan rerocado nuesrros arrfculos
14 HOW THEY STACKED... COMPETITION: como diFerfan
de los de la comperencia 15 TO CLIP: corrar 16 WITH
ABANDON: a rodo rirmo 17 FEVERISHLY: febrilmeme
18 STILL-TREADING-GENTLY: que alll1 iba con cuidado
19 SLIGHT: leve 20 EDGE: roque 21 DUMB: esnJpido
22 TO PRESS THE POINT: insisrir 23 FOR THE RECORD: que
consre 24 GESTURE: deralle 25 PROMPTLY: inmediara-
meme 26 TO NURTURE: cuidar 27 DIDN'T EXACTLY HAVE A
GREEN THUMB: las plamas no se Ie daban muy bien, pre-
cisanleme 28 TO FLOOD: inundar 29 TO DUMP ON: verrer
30 TO DOUSE: mojar 31 TO MELT: lit., derrerjrse 32 ooz-
ING: rezumando agua 33 LIMP: musrio 34 OMEN: pre-
sagio 35 TO HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH: rener mareria para
esrudiar 36 LEAP: salro 37 PET CLASSIFIEDS: anuncios
c1asiftcados de animales domesricos 38 PUPPY: cacho
rro 39 TO CATCH 5.0'5 FANCY: lIamar la arenci6n 40 PURE-
BRED: con pedigrf 41 SHOT: vacuna 42 PARENTS ON
PREMISES: se ha criado en la misma casa que sus padres
43 CAN YOU... TIME: ,me puedes volver a explicar esro de
la plama y eI animal' 44 DAMN: maldiro 45 BY THE DAY:
cada dfa 46 JUST... OUT OF COLLEGE: recien graduada
SPEAK UP 41
LITERATURE
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
A) Choose the best answer for each
question.
11 What do Jenny and her husband do?
A. They both work on the same newspaper.
8. They work for two different newspapers in
the same area.
c. They work for two newspapers in different
areas.
2) Why had he bought Jenny the plant in the
first place?
A. It was a belated birthday present.
8. She had always wanted that type of plant.
c. There was no particular reason for the
present.
31 How does the husband react to the idea of
having a dog?
A. He sees a direct link between wanting a
pet and a plant.
8. He realizes that it will be good practise for
when they have a kid.
c. He sees no logic from first wanting to
have a plant and then a pet dog.
4) When the couple got married...
A. they were living in South Florida.
8. they were still students in Michigan.
c. they were living 24 hours' drive apart.
5) Generally speaking, what was the
couple's reaction to having kids?
A. Neither of them felt very inclined to try it.
8. They wanted to have them one day but
were scared of the idea.
c. Jenny was more enthusiastic than he was.
B) Connect the words from the two columns
to make commonly used collocations, all of
which appear in the story.
A. early
8. local
c. household
o. daily
E. field
F. real
G. perfect
I. good
1. day
2. income
3. practise
4. issue
5. sense
6. days
7. paper
8. basis
Answers
A) 18, 2c,3c,4A, 58
B)A6, 87, c2, 08, E1,F4,G5, H3
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serious adulthood
47
still seemed a far dis-
tam concept. For both of us, it was our
first professional job out of school. We
ate a lot of pizza, drank a lot of beer, and
gave exactly zero thought
48
to the possi-
bility of someday being anything other
than young, single, un-
ferrered
49
consumers of
pizza and beer.
U t years pas-
sed. We had
bare1lo begun
dating
51
when various job op-
portunities - and a one-year
postgraduate program for me - pulled
us in differem directions across the east-
ern United States. At first we were one
hour's drive
52
apart. Then
we were three hours apart. Then eight,
then twenty-four. By the time we both
landed
53
together in South Florida and
tied the knot
5
" she was nearly thirty.
Her friends were having babies. Her
body was sending her strange messages.
That once seemingly55 eternal window
of procreative opportunity56 was slowly
lowering
57
.
I leaned
58
over her from behind,
wrapped
59
my arms around her shoul-
ders, and kissed the top of her head. "It's
okay," I said. Bur I had to admit, she
raised
60
a good question. Neither of us
had ever really nurtured a thing in our
lives. Sure, we'd had pets growing up, but
they didn't really count. We always knew
our parems would
keep them alive and
well. We both knewwe
wanted to one day have
children, bur was ei-
ther of us really up for
the job
61
? Children
were so... so... scarl
2
. They were help-
less
63
and fragile and looked like they
would break easily ifdropped
64
.
A little smile broke out
65
on Jenny's
face. "I thought maybe a dog would be
good practise
66
," she said.
47 ADULTHDOO: mavorfa de edad
48 WE GAVE EXACTLY ZERO THOUGHT: no
pensamos en ello para nada 49 UNFETIERED: libre
50 BARELY: apenas 51 TO DATE: salir con 52 ONE
HOUR'S ORIVE: a una hora en coche 53 TO LAND:
aterrizar 54 TO TIE THE KNOT: casarse 55 SEEMINGLY:
aparenremenre 56 WINDOW OF PROCREATIVE
OPPORTUNITY: perfodo para tener hijos 57 TO LOWER:
(aqui) cerrarse 58 TO LEAN: inclinarse 59 TO WRAP:
envolver 60 TO RAISE: planrear 61 TO BE UP FOR THE
JOB: cstar a la altura de una tarea 62 TO BE SCARY: dar
miedo 63 HELPLESS: indefenso 64 TO DROP: dejar cact
65 TO BREAK OUT: aparecer 66 WOULO BE GOOD
PRACTISE: nos darla la oportunidad de practicar
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David Crystal is Britain's leading
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Sounding out Phil Spector
In December 2002, the legendary
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creator of the fa-
mous 'wall of sound'
studio production
style of the 1960s-
gave his first major
interviewfor 25
..
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Published to tie in with11 a new BBC
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estselling American author
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Novel', with books which
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courtroom thriller, two parts social
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2
into
complex human relation-
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troversial issues such as
sexual abuse in the
Church. Nineteen Min-
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school shooting
3
An alienated
teenager who has been bullied
4
by his
classmates for years opens fire one
day at school, killing 10 people.
During the killer's trial, divisions
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and families along the way.
High School Shooting
Britain's Most
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damn well old enough to know bet-
ters." Two tunes
6
from the album, No
Pussy BLues and Get It On, can be heard
on the band's myspace page.
In February this year, Cave an-
nounced that he was working on ma-
terial for a new Bad Seeds album. "I
feel like something's about to hap-
pen," he told reporters. "What? I'm
not really quite sure. There's a certain
type of music I'd like to make, and
that's just raising its head
7
, so I would-
n't like to talk too much about it."
GrindingIt Out
In January 2006, The Artic Monkey's Whatever
People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, be-
came the fastest-selling debut album in UK
music history. The four-piece from Sheffield
had achieved huge
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popularity without a
record label
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, allowing fans to down-
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had a record deal, the band
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no-nonsense'2approachto
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scooped'4 two Brit Awards,
but didn't pick them up: they
recorded their acceptance
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characters from the Wizard of Oz
and the Village People. This
month they release Your Fa-
vourite Worst Nightmare, pre-
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Your Favourite Monkeys
N
ick Cave is back with an album
from his side-project Grinder-
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with the Bad Seeds. In the three years
since his last tour with the Bad Seeds,
Cave has been playing with a three-
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Ellis on electric bouzouki, guitar and
violin, Martyn P Casey on bass and
Jim Sclavunos on drums.
Last month they released an album
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, noisy, hairy and
.......,.....
1 PREACHER: predicador
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HUMOUR: humor seco 4 FOUL-MOUTHED: mal
hablado 5 OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BEITER: a la
edad que rienen deberfan rener mas juicio
6 TUNE: canci6n 7 THAT'S JUST RAISING ITS HEAD:
empieza a romar forma 8 HUGE: enorme
9 RECORD LABEL: casa discografica 10 SOLO-OUT:
con rodas las enrradas agoradas 11 GIG: concierro
12 NO-NONSENSE: serio, sensaro 13 DISREGARD:
indiferencia 14 TO SCOOP: lIevarse, conseguir
44 SPEAK UP
T
he sinuous superhero Spi-
derman is back in his third
offering. This time the tag is
'How long can any man
fight the darkness - before
he find its himself?', which suggests
that it may be time for Spiderman to
do a bit of soul searching" much
like the caped crusader did in 2005's
Batman Begins. Spiderman (aka Peter
Parker) is once again played by Toby
Maguire, whose nerdl presence
lends the character a vulnerable
touch, with Kirsten Dunst as his girl-
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friend Mary Jane Watson. The only
other notable cast member is Theresa
Russell, ex-wife of the cutting-
edge
3
filmmaker Nicholas Roeg and
lead
4
in much of his best work
throughout the eighties.
With his double life now known to
Mary Jane and the news that an es-
caped convict was actually the killer
of his beloved uncle, Spiderman's life
has become fraught with
5
complica-
tions. To make matters worse, anoth-
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Film blogs are aflutter with
6
how
Spiderman will be able to cope with
these stick/ situations. So far, howev-
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ment has been adept in keeping the
mystery alive until the international
release date on 4 May.
Been There, Done Thai
A
ny film that relies on the device
of deja-vus, time-l oops8 or see-
ing-into-the-immediate-future
makes for entertaining viewing, pos-
sibly because we have all at one time
experienced the same phenomena. In
Premonition (Siete Dias), Sandra Bul-
lock stars as Linda Hanson, a subur-
ban mother who we initially see go--
ing through the motions
9
ofa normal
day, until a policeman arrives at the
door with the news that her husband
(played by Australian actor Julian
McMahon) has died in a car crash.
She wakes up from her 'dream' earlier
in the week and then spends the rest
ofthe film trying to prevent the tragic
event from happening.
Followinga current trend, the work
is actually a remake of an Asian film,
in this case rogan (2004), a classic
piece of contemporary Japanese hor-
ror. Toned down
lo
for Western tastes
and with the lead role genders
switched, the film is the Hollywood
debut of German director Mennan
Yapo. While Premonition may be a
newventure for him, even during pro-
duction film critics were starting to
suspect that we had seen it all before.
1 SOUL SEARCHING: examen de
conciencia 2 NERDY: pazglla[Q
3 CUTIING-EDGE: de vangllardia 4 LEAD: aC[Qr
principal 5 FRAUGHT WITH: cargado de 6 AFLUTTER
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intereses, orros ya han alzado voces de
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cintas independientes, donde ha podi-
do demostrar sus cualidades interpre-
tativas. Feliz madre y esposa del direc-
tor Sam Mendes, se siente bien con su
figura, que no sigue los canones de
hiperdelgadez del Hollywood actual.
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