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While the corps de ballet of peasants in the first act looked slightly uncoordinated, the corps de ballet of wilis in the second act was excellently rehearsed--their lines and movements were perfectly coordinated, their legs and feet stretched and pointed and their heads and arms all bent at the same angle...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in Boston Ballet's `Giselle' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...noisy thanksgiving that proclaims "Everyday I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." The other verses go, "Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y g,n" --which could be an elaboration on said religio-nationalistic gratitude, or, you know, something else altogether. Either way, the Welsh group is bent on going international, and in that velveteen, strangely alien way that European groups have of taking over...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Catatonia Dreamin' | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...Clinton's inner circle. It's not fair, it's not right that Clinton should be impeached, one longtime adviser said. It's not fair, it's not right that he should be run out of office by an independent counsel with an unlimited purse and a partisan, moralistic bent. But "what should and what will happen are two different things," said the adviser. Clinton might survive, the adviser says, but the cost to the party and to the issues and interests for which the President stands would be too much to bear. "He can pull it out through force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Way Out? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...armed with a neatly typed crib sheet of some 14 prospective classes, I felt ready to take my place as part of a frenzied mass bent on shopping as many classes as time--or energy--would allow...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Once More Into the Fray | 9/17/1998 | See Source »

...BRAINIAC An ambitious scientist is bent on world domination, but Superman--who is smart but not too smart--stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook: Is It Possible To Be Too Smart? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

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