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...Kidman has played the bitch goddess before, though never with such silky pleasure in being malevolent. If there's a casting revelation, it's the lead actress, who was just 12 when she was chosen for Lyra, her first professional role. Dakota Blue Richards: it sounds like the name of a second-tier rock star's kid. But she's an actual English girl (with an American mother), and a knockout. Her look is both wary and sleepy, as if she'd just been poked awake from a bad dream. There's an intelligent insolence about Richards, suggesting...
...team of uniformed runners goes jogging silently past. They symbolize, I suppose, the fact that there are other people in the world, lost in their own preoccupations, benignly indifferent to the issues absorbing Juno, absorbing us. It is a smart reminder that the story any fiction relates is arbitrarily chosen and dependent for its effect on the ability of its tellers to enlist our interest - no special pleading, no emotional cheap shots permitted...
...credit dance classes. A former principal dancer and artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Dakin brings to the classroom firsthand experience with the iconic modern dancer, to whom she refers with personal familiarity and deep respect. It is also not difficult to see why Harvard might have chosen Graham’s work as an initial bridge between academia and dance. “There’s an intellectual and a literary aspect to Martha’s work that has always been fascinating to me,” says Dakin. Dakin herself did not discover dance...
...role?JVM: Not really.RR: What’s the most gruesome scene in the play?JVM: I guess the most gruesome scene will be actual the rape of Lavinia. I guess I’m not supposed to say what actually happens and how the director’s chosen to stylize it, but it should be really graphic.RR: So is this an R-rated performance?JVM: Yes, this is R-rated, if not...Well this performance is not X-rated. But, I mean, I imagine that “Titus” could be X-rated. It?...
With the help of experts from Sichuan University, the story continued, Tan's team won the competition and then had a month of intense training organized by the provincial military command, simulating attacks, designing hacking tools and drafting network-infiltration strategies. Tan was then chosen to represent the Sichuan Military Command in competition with other provinces. His team won again, after which, the iDefense reports say, he founded the NCPH and acquired an unidentified benefactor ("most likely the PLA") to subsidize the group's activities to the tune of $271 a month...