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...billion in annual athletic-footwear sales, but evidence suggests they would be willing to spend more. "Women tend not to be price sensitive. They will pay full price," says Carol Murray, senior analyst for apparel and footwear at Salomon Smith Barney. "And it's clear that color and fashion are as important to women as performance...
...Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first Australian foray. "Yes, I'm from this place but I've been away for a while," says Doyle, 49, in his manic Mandarin-tinged accent, "so maybe...
...film that treads an at times predictable path, Doyle's work is at once moody, mysterious and mesmeric. Like black tracker Moodoo (powerfully played by David Gulpilil), he sees things in the desert that others can't: sources of Aboriginal dreaming in the color-saturated opening scenes, to ghostly presences in bleached-out hues as the girls struggle to survive in the desert heat. Here they become dots in a more timeless, mythological canvas. "There's no question that the landscape made the film," says Doyle. "So our job was to find the right spaces and time...
...what you will about the liberties the bond string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
...very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding dragons, but only the eternity of desire and the fading of youth. When characters wish to express their deepest thoughts, they exchange poems, paying consummate attention to every detail of presentation: calligraphy, color of paper and ink. Once we understand how someone could fall in or out of love because of another person's handwriting (or singing or dancing), we are all set for the long, slow delights of this wonderful novel...