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When the South Asian Dance Organization tooktheir turn, Smith read from a description, whichsaid their dance represented "young coy womenwhose husbands do not appreciate their work."Smith paused and directed his next comment to hiswife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who was seated in thefront...
...dominated by the suicide faction of the G.O.P.--the one that has driven the House to impeachment, hurt its fund raising, weakened its hold on Congress and scared others out of the race. This ugly environment may help explain why front runner Bush has for weeks been so strangely coy about his plans, in hopes of lowering the near impossible expectations piling up around him. Millionaire publishing tycoon Steve Forbes, in his fourth year of nonstop campaigning, has replaced his passion for the flat tax with sermons on abortion, winning few converts. John McCain, the maverick Arizona Senator, announced...
Romeo and Juliet was danced by principal dancers Julie Kent and Guillaume Graffin. Julie Kent was, in a word, stunning. Kent's Juliet was extremely delicate and tender and her incredibly thin figure folded and melted around Graffin. Her shy and coy youthfulness came through in each lift and embrace. Kenneth MacMillan's choreography is one of the most passionate that I have seen for this pas de deux. While it included sweeping lifts and movements across the stage, the most moving moments came when the two dancers were kneeling together at center stage and Graffin lifted Juliet over...
...performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty of love in the flesh...
Whenever I introduce myself as a native Southern Californian, eyebrows rise, nostrils flare and coy smiles show. But I have become accustomed to this reaction, especially as it becomes clearer and clearer that most people simply consider the West Coast a haven for "snow bunnies" and for types of foliage that just cannot be cultivated in colder climates. I smile and tell them to give California a second chance...