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...ORDINARY PEOPLE The theme of Robert Redford's directorial debut is that boating rips families apart. After Conrad (Timothy Hutton) fails to save his big brother in a storm on Lake Michigan, he attempts suicide. After he returns home from the mental institution, his coldly chipper mom (Mary Tyler Moore) is speaking for herself when she complains, "I don't think people want to be with him." Conrad blames himself for his brother's death, even though the real murderers are the droves of psychopathic molecules composed of two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen. He does quit the swim team...
Lisa Kirchner, daughter of Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner, will be performing in the series debut on July...
...produce his signature White Label collection from conglomerate GFT, and he recently established an office in Singapore to run his Asian business. He has also bought back the franchise for his stores in Japan. The new accessories collection should be very lucrative, the company says. The shoes and handbags debut this fall with a flashy ad campaign...
...visions of sipping wine in Provence clouding your thoughts at work? Cave in to them. The weakening euro makes Europe a relative summer bargain. Since its 1999 debut, the euro has lost almost 25% of its value with respect to the dollar. For U.S. manufacturers that export, that's not good, but for tourists it's a boon. The currencies of 11 European countries are tied to the euro, so their values have fallen in kind. In France $1 is worth 6.9 francs this month, versus 6.3 last year. That means a Paris hotel room, regularly $200 a night...
...electronic music," says Benning. Her interests meshed with the girl-punk sensibilities of Kathleen Hanna, former singer of Bikini Kill, and the 'zine writer Johanna Fateman, with whom she formed the rock group Le Tigre last year. Their February word-of-mouth-only debut in Brooklyn packed a huge loft with so many insiders that a crowd stood listening in the snow outside. "We pretty much rotate instruments," says Benning, who assembles many of Le Tigre's beats on samplers and '80s-vintage drum machines. After its tour, the band plans to record a follow-up to last year...