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...Malkovich” fame, the video is a compendium of quintessential Walken moments, as the veteran actor glides, taps, leaps, and literally flies through the frame. The video opens up to a suit-clad Walken sitting alone in an empty hotel lobby. The music, like Walken’s crisp red tie, is perfectly tailored to his movements, with its quick pulses over a steady dance tempo. As the music starts, he starts bopping his head to the beat, and that characteristic Walken gleam enters his eye.He’s got a lot to gleam about...
...Thursday morning, as students skied across the Yard, “some invisible person threw open a second-floor window…and blasted the finale of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony into the crisp air,” Morris writes. “So why, after the music ended 10 minutes later, with 48 thunderclaps of C major, were some of the listeners crying...
...from the official line, thinks at least half the attackers were killed. He put the losses among police and troops at more than 30, with about the same number of civilian deaths. Those who saw Putin that day say he was furious at news of the assault. He issued crisp instructions that anyone bearing arms in the city who resisted arrest should be "eliminated." But the Nalchik raid has forced the Kremlin to confront the fact that it is fighting a war on more fronts than just Chechnya. Despite regular announcements of major victories there, Russian forces are merely holding...
...when the thousands of journalists, magazine editors and department- and specialty-store buyers from around the world trekked to Paris last week for the spring 2006 collections, they were looking for more than the safe, crisp poplin trench coats and soft sleeveless dresses many designers were offering. They wanted to be worked into a lather about something. And eventually they were--by the skinny pants and fancy frills that Nicolas Ghesquire, 34, showed at Balenciaga, the Camille Claudel-like attenuated hourglass silhouettes of Olivier Theyskens at Rochas and John Galliano's surprisingly minimalist nude-chiffon-and-black-lace dresses...
...trench coats and dabbled with a soft '60s-style color palette of faded teal and mustard, inspired by unlikely fashion icons - the British royals, as depicted in period portraits. The Windsor influence didn't show up elsewhere, but the pared-down styles did. At Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld sent out crisp white eyelet skirts and polka-dot blouses as a backdrop to Silvia Venturini Fendi's standout handbags - now in funky combinations of straw, plastic, canvas and patent leather. At Bottega Veneta, designer Tomas Maier paired sterling silver?ornamented velvet handbags with simple dresses in dusty shades of khaki and stone.And...