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...When the team split, Astaire kept doing it all on his own. His dancing partners over the next 20 years included some prime enchantresses: Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron, Audrey Hepburn, Barrie Chase. But Astaire's solos became his signature pieces. On his own, he used stage props - and the properties of film - as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dance to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in "Easter Parade," defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in "Royal Wedding," defied age by hoofing serenely through his sixth, seventh...
...chain for several hours to break it, freed herself and then, perhaps because her family's home line was busy, called her parents' office. The employee who answered picked her up and took her home. Police staked out Hescock's house, but after engaging them in a car chase and shoot-out, Hescock shot himself in the head...
...were accused of being a kind of complacent period,” said Chase N. Peterson ’52, the first marshal of the Class. “But it was a transition, more than anything else, from turmoil to new stability...
...fans afraid the band had gone the way of Falun Gong on the mainland. Officials say the band isn't banned, but the same doesn't go for their even more popular Taiwanese TV series Meteor Garden, in which the F4 boys play spoiled rich kids who drive BMWs, chase girls and engage in other non-socialist behavior. The Beijing Youth Daily complained that the series gave teen viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society"-which, one might think, is pretty much the point of television. Nevertheless, the government banned what parents were calling "electronic heroin" after...
PLACEBO POWER Move over, Prozac. It looks as if sugar pills can chase the blues away too. A six-week clinical trial in which doctors used PET scans to examine the brains of 17 patients hospitalized for depression shows that high-priced antidepressants and dummy pills both cause visible changes in the mood-regulating regions of the brain. Asked how they felt, patients on fake and real pills alike reported that their symptoms improved. But don't tear up your prescription just yet. The catch? The subjects' moods may have lifted in part because they had left their usual worries...