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...Spokane as it does on Manhattan's East Side?especially not at $1.75 a pint. But any store can follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your customer, his age, affluence, customs, habits, tastes. Then set out to woo him with distinctive merchandise, flashy displays and a general aura of showmanship, all calculated to make shopping an adventure?in fact, fun. Bloomingdale's puts it on the unicorn-bedecked Christmas shopping bags it is handing out to customers this year, "Come, let us believe in magic again...
Carol Kane gives an amazing performance as Gitl. She exercises an absolute control over her movements and facial expressions, projecting an aura of quiet power throughout the film. Her sallow complexion and penetrating eyes give her face a strongly soulful quality. Kane undergoes an extraordinary transformation during the course of the film. At first an ugly duckling, she blossoms into a strikingly attractive woman by the end of the film; a submissive wife when she steps off the boat, she eventually emerges as an independent and assertive figure. The rest of the film's performances are generally solid, with only...
...Kennedys answered the call, and the Senator and his wife looked on approvingly when Mrs. Sadat gave a 4,500-year-old alabaster vase to the Kennedy Center. Later they came in phalanx-Rose, Eunice, Teddy and Joan-to Anderson House, where Sadat was the host. The aura of well being floated through the house, normally the home of the Society of the Cincinnati, descendants of the officers of George Washington's army...
Those pictures had an aura akin to what I'd expect from the Hope diamond. No way they could have been taken in Texas. They were so crystalline, with a clarity to be had only in the absence of atmosphere, clouds, haze, light refracted and distracted. Literal remoteness was their essence. On TV we saw the human acts, so very simple--Armstrong saying nothing more than "just a little step for me, but you folks got a long way to go" and his pleasure in flowing slow motion. The human aspect was pretty much a not very well-scripted Wild...
...professorship in Modern Greek Studies might become a reality in five or six years. Now that a chair has actually been endowed with the necessary $1 million, inquiries about the program seem to grate on official nerves. As usual, you can wrangle some gossip here and there. But the aura of intrigue surrounding this story is definitely not routine...