Word: courtship
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More than 1,000 spectators, dressed in everything from lab coats to garden hoses, crowded into Sanders Theater last night to honor four researchers who studied ostriches’ courtship behavior toward humans...
Therapy even intruded on their courtship. "Soon after Annie and I became engaged, a psychologist we met at a party told us we were the worst imaginable marital risk," Kaplan recalls. The therapeutic view proved wrong again: Bernays and Kaplan have been married 47 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren. Every day the two go off to their individual offices in their Dutch colonial home to work on their next books. It's just life on Professors...
...give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred takes Ginger in his arms and leads her in eight spins, as delirious as they are precise. The courtship is over. This is the real thing: sex as hot, fast fun, two people in perfectly matched abandon, too rapt to notice their surprise at the other's expertise, at how beautifully and energetically they dance...
...traditional mainland film, Dai Sajie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, brings literature to the rural masses but not much pop to the party. Outside the competition, Taiwan pursued its two-cinemas-one-country course. On the art side: Yee Chih-yen's Blue Gate Crossing, a teen courtship fable with a lovely, troubled mood. On the pop side: Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision, an enjoyable, disposable serial-killer thriller with stars from the U.S. (David Morse) and Hong Kong (Tony Leung). It's been made before, too many times...
...cream, then hustled to serve the 1,000 fans in line. Cuban briefly recruited basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman, inviting him to live in the guesthouse of the $15 million Cuban mansion. Rodman didn't last, either at the mansion or with the Mavericks, but Cuban calls the courtship an "experiment" worth trying...