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...Lucas film will have vagrant charms. Davis is ingratiating. So is Julie Peters playing his wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle...
Designing safe inside a creative cocoon, impervious to commercial flux, is an almost utopian ideal. It requires a nearly impossible combination: flinty individuality, a healthy business base, a viable commercial identity and a strong stylistic hand. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des garcons and Yohji Yamamoto have both been around long enough to be considered less revolutionaries than revisionist classicists, but their new collections showed them to be as restless and clever as ever. Kawakubo sent out dozens of outfits with unexpected lapels and seams like overgrown ski trails, most in combinations of black, red and orange, so the show seemed...
Lacroix was born in 1950 into a well-off bourgeois family of engineers, and home was, on the whole, a comfortable cocoon for a little boy who can remember sketching all day long when he was three. The designer-to-be was particularly impressed by his grandfather, whom he describes as "very arrogant, like an actor." It is now a secure part of fashion legend that one day the old man asked Christian what he would like to be when he grew up. "Christian Dior," he shot back...
Last week, in an apparent effort to defuse the issue, Pravda carried a large black-and-white photo of the SS-20. The accompanying story spoke of an "enormous, dull green cocoon with a blunted half sphere . . . a belly full of fuel, its sleepy snoozing head, where the explosive is concealed." Like earlier photos provided by the Soviets, the Pravda snapshot showed the canister encasing the SS-20, not the missile itself. The article, said a Western diplomat, "is of more literary than military value." And the West is still waiting for that photo...
...think, than I would have if I had attended a coed school," says Wadland, who graduated in June after serving as student-body president. "We knew we were going to have to compete with men all our lives," she observes, "and it was nice to be in that cocoon for four years and then come out charging...