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...Harvard's come-from-behind victory over its arch-rival is generally considered to be the second most memorable moment of The Game ever, trailing only undefeated Harvard's 29-29 slaughter of previously undefeated Yale...
...court-show spoof All Rise for Julian Clary, Clary--a proudly queeny gay man in dandyish paisleys and an ascot--dispenses arch, arbitrary justice to aggrieved parties: it's like the Judge Oscar Wilde Show. And Goodness Gracious Me offers postcolonialist sketch comedy from a British-Indian troupe...
While beauty is a given, what you don't expect is the uncensored river of provocative commentary, delivered with the bemused arch of one thin eyebrow (just the left one) while her delicate hands conduct an air ballet. "Everyone is so constipated by fear in Hollywood. Everybody cares so much; they care about your hair, about your clothes," she says, raising that eyebrow to indicate they don't really care at all. "I was surprised at how insincere people could be, but that's the currency of Hollywood...
...that has led to a political resurgence of hard-liners grouped around National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, China's number two leader, who wants reforms slowed down rather than speeded up (as China's entry into the World Trade Organization would require). The fact that it was arch-reformist Premier Zhu Rongji who issued some of the strongest threats yet against Taiwan on Wednesday may be a sign of the growing conservative strength within China's leadership. And that could be bad news for the entire reform project...
...devoted to expelling illusion as a fraud, a lie and a cheat on the deeper impulses of art, one can easily see why Dali's illusionism was so bitterly attacked as mere trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali...