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...Although still lovable and the epitome of cute, Matthew O’ Callaghan’s “Curious George” is a bit bland for anyone over the age of six. Universal Pictures could have easily followed the Pixar design with its movie version of the classic, dictating a spiced-up, CGI-ed kind of glory, with a wisecracking George hip to all sorts of slang. Fortunately, the creators of “Curious George” have gone old-school, deciding to return to 2-D, hand-drawn animation and kiddy-style content. While the plot...
...topstitch seam of a Napoleon jacket or the diamond pleat of a corset dress, to the fluted sleeve of the Anna coat from his most recent collection. "He understands subtle things that add something to the wearer's experience," says Somerville, "as well as being flattering and beautiful and classic." No wonder dedicated wearers include such style icons as Naomi Campbell, Lee Radziwill and Cate Blanchett. As it happens, the actress was spotted wheeling a stroller through the show late last month, transported by the floating corsets and flying crinolines. One can see the appeal. Elegance is a rare commodity...
...DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, Scottish ballet dancer, actress and writer famed for her role as the ballerina in the 1948 classic The Red Shoes; in Oxford, Britain. Flame-haired and strikingly beautiful, Shearer danced iconic parts for London's Sadler's Wells (now Royal) Ballet in the 1940s. But she popularized the art with Oscar-winning The Red Shoes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a girl forced by her shoes to dance until she died. "Here was this apparition," recalled Shearer's husband, writer and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy, "with ... a figure like an hour-glass, blue-green...
Facing two EIVA opponents this weekend at the 28th annual Golden Dome Classic, the Harvard men’s volleyball team, still playing without starting setter Dave Fitz, failed to capture a single game and remained winless on the season.While the matches against host Rutgers-Newark and division rival New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) didn’t figure in the Crimson’s league record, the weekend set at the Golden Dome in Newark, N.J., provided Harvard (0-6, 0-1 Hay) with a chance to evaluate how well it would match up against its conference rivals...
True, we can ruin our future if we listen to the voices of defeatism and give in to the classic isolationist tendencies of protectionism and xenophobia. Fear could lead us to cut off trade both in goods and in brains, keeping out those wily foreigners who come here to learn our secrets and take them home. Of course, some do. They always have, but the majority are seduced by the openness, tolerance and energy of America and stay here to enrich...