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Cruel? Crude? Even a wee bit sexist? You bet pal, but it's not my fault--I'm just your typical cosmopolitan shopper, aged 20-to-35, M.C. Escher on my closet door and cross-country skis within. I breakfast at the Greenhouse Coffee House, brunch at 33-D, and eat out whenever I can. I'm as relevant as Passim's and as exotic as the Coffeee Connection...
Ross' film blazes no new trails, and most of the film's compelling appeal can be traced to the strength of the acting. MacLaine's earthy housewife provides a gritty counterpoint to Bancroft's cosmopolitan artiste, and Baryshnikov's limited role makes no undue demands on his fledgling talents in front of a camera. His virility and sheer presence suffice for the portrayal of the compulsive narcissist stud in the company, and his dancing will predictably astound moviegoers unfamiliar with the awesome talents of Nureyev's successor. While Browne is relegated to the imposing shadow cast by Baryshnikov's virtuoso...
...grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers of the past. Finally, the movie audience now is much smaller, less habitual in its attendance and more urban and cosmopolitan. That audience has, for instance, all but buried the greatest of movie genres, the western, which stated and restated the most potent of American myths, that of the loner forever moving westward...
Members last night ate twelve kinds of cookies, drank pink punch from the club's engraved silver punch bowl and signed up for activities ranging from children's parties to "cosmopolitan" evenings of armchair world travel...
...cosmopolitan character of the small city (pop. 46,929) at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains-it even sports a symphony orchestra-is testimony to the singular success of South Carolina's drive to lure foreign investment. The state has attracted foreign factories worth about $1.7 billion, and some 40% of this investment is located in Spartanburg. Hoechst, Germany's chemical giant, operates a $300 million fiber plant there; Switzerland's Sulzer makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near...