TAP Air Portugal (the country of great footballers) Airbus A320 From Milan To Lisbon. Last week, I had the chance to fly with TAP Air Portugal to New York onboard its Airbus A321LR fleet. However, before commencing the long-haul leg, I had a quick hop from Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Lisbon Airport (LIS) onboard an A320-200, carrying flight number TP829. However, as we'll see this two-and-a-half-hour-hop quickly turned into a much longer journey thanks to weather delays and a lack of communication.
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“We look for ‘holy fucking shit’ movies,” James Shapiro recently explained to Indiewire in the matter-of-fact tone of an archaeologist. In fact, he is an archaeologist of sorts: he’s the Chief Operating Officer of Drafthouse Films, which, among other things, re-releases repertory movies that are, in his words, “lost in time and ripe for rediscovery.” He and the Drafthouse team pluck would-be cult classics (such as “Miami Connection” or “The Visitor”) from the catacombs of cinema’s graveyard, asking themselves, “What can we show in the theaters that is so batshit crazy that it’ll shock, excite and entertain people?'”
This year, the answer to that question had something to do with lions, tigers, scalped cinematographers and Melanie Griffith. While in line at a film festival, Drafthouse Films founder Tim League overheard a conversation about a crazy movie that had never been released stateside. The premise sounded too preposterous to be true. Intrigued, League phoned Shapiro and asked him to get his hands on a copy.
In this brain puzzle, you are given three similar-looking grey and light-grey cats.
The test is to work out which of the trio is the odd cat out.
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DailymotionIf you can work out which cat different to the other two in less than 10 seconds you might have a high IQ.
Furthermore, these brain teasers, while considered by some to be fun, could have long-term benefits if they are completed regularly.
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In the pantheon of contemporary American filmmakers who do what they want, no personality looms larger than Quentin Tarantino, as the filmmaker himself gladly reminds anyone who asks. Like his movies, Tarantino speaks in lengthy paragraphs filled with vivid observations about the state of popular culture and his role within it.
But his assessments of the industry tend to reflect the insular world of filmmaking that he has inhabited from the start. In a meaty interview this week with Vulture’s Lane Brown, the master stylist takes a break from his upcoming minimalist western “The Hateful Eight” to share his thoughts on a wide variety of topics, from his capacity to produce compelling work more than two decades after his initial success with “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction” to his adoration of Barack Obama. Though typically self-assured, Tarantino barely hesitates to analyze his own failings. He offers some telling insight into the failure of “Grindhouse,” the homage to sleazy B-movies he produced with fellow genre aficionado Robert Rodriguez, but he’s on shakier ground when discussing the impact of Hollywood blockbusters on the visibility of pretty much everything else
The conversation takes a heated turn when Brown asks Tarantino about the mounting pressure being placed on summer movie tentpoles, and the resulting impact on more ambitious work. In particular, Brown cites pessimism from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas about “the future of the film industry” — specifically the possibility that “if a few tentpoles flopped, it could cause the whole business to implode.” Tarantino responds by defending “franchise filmmaking,” explaining that “it has been going on since I was born.” He’s eager to check out Guy Ritchie’s “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” If Spielberg and Lucas have a problem with those kind of movies, Tarantino adds, “they don’t have to direct them.”
It’s here that the director stumbles. Brown’s question has less to do with the personal desires of the Hollywood elite than a larger systematic issue. The context stems from a public discussion between Spielberg and Lucas at the University of Southern California two years back, when the influential directors predicted “an implosion” of the industry. However, the duo went beyond questioning the artistic merit of massive studio-mandated spectacles to decry their impact on other kinds of projects — in short, everything else.
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Did you spot the odd cat out in under 10 seconds? Don't worry if you didn't.
The answer is cat C, which has no eyebrows. The answer is circled below.
These puzzles work in a similar way to physical exercise for the rest of the body; they push the brain and can help make it stronger.
The stronger and healthier the brain, the less likely someone is to develop a degenerative condition like dementia or Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia.
According to the charity Alzheimer's Society, someone is diagnosed with dementia in the UK every three minutes.
My journey began at Row 15 of Milan MXP's check-in area. TAP Air uses the last four desks in the row but has no branding in this area, which led to me double-checking the display at first. However, walking to the end I saw the monitors behind the Air Canada boards and quickly joined the queue. Considering the airline has four daily flights, it's unclear if this was just for the last flight of the day or the norm.
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