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...building on the banks of the Vltava River in Prague has one. It's called Fred and Ginger, after its twin towers: one flirty and curvilinear, the other solid and upright. The staggered windows and rippled riverfront facade reflect the adjacent row houses even as the building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings but added Gehry's signature whimsy. Ginger isn't twirling like that just for fun, though--her kinked shape means the view...
...human child--which still later changes from a puppet into a real live boy. Oversize masks hide most of the remaining actors, from the stern-faced schoolteacher with his crooked, elongated finger to a snarling, flamenco-dancing tiger tamer. Butterflies float across the stage, a miniature church breaks apart when leaves erupt from inside it, and a dancing skeleton in a bowler hat is a macabre emcee...
...troupe of frazzled quadlings boards the shuttle bus. As it careens through the drizzle towards the Square, one rider becomes choked up as she tells her friend how her life--with a formal to plan, a thesis to write and cover letters to complete--is coming apart...
First comes the transgression, then the confession. In ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'s case, the confessor is DIANE SAWYER, who taped an interview with the troubled actor in his rehabilitation center for PrimeTime Live. Apart from admitting he "was under the influence when doing most all" of Home for the Holidays, a movie for which he got some creditable reviews, Downey says that after he was first put in jail on drug-possession charges, he called his wife, who refused to bail him out. "That's when I started realizing: my God, people are really happy that I'm in jail...
...Apart from that stroke of bad timing, this authoritative reference book rides the espionage headlines exceedingly well. The Soviets' CIA mole Aldrich Ames is here, as is hot-off-the-press documentation gleaned from the long-secret U.S. "Venona" decrypts of Russian intelligence, which pretty much confirm the guilt of the late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven...