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...Grant will probably bumble and stutter his way through yet another film, while Caan gets another turn at his Oscar-nominated Godfather role. Director Kelly Makin has only the flop Brain Candy: Kids in the Hall among her credits, and test screenings have been decidedly negative, citing a script devoid of laughs and a tired premise among its shortcomings...
...Carol Stream, Ill., fourth-graders found a new use for their discarded sneakers: recycled-rubber playground surfaces. Meanwhile, their peers in Knoxville, Tenn., built 17 bird feeders and drew wildlife to an urban area formerly devoid of birds and squirrels...
Calvert has the look of a philosophy grad student, but his clothes are not meant for library dwellers. He specializes in architectural gowns devoid of superfluous ornament. "I don't make dresses for hangers," he explains. "They are about the contours of the body." Calvert has already found a fan in the eminent (and like-minded) Geoffrey Beene, a designer not known for the promiscuous use of terms like absolutely fabulous. Says Beene: "There has been a great period of mediocrity in fashion, and William is the shining light at the end of that tunnel...
...none since the death of Thomas Gainsborough a century before, and Sargent, with his tremendous fluency and genuine empathy for the social levels of his sitters, filled the gap to perfection. He had no interest in politics past or present, was completely without class resentment and seemed to be devoid of irony. As a biographer who knew him pointed out, "He would have been puzzled to answer if he had been asked how nine-tenths of the population lived; he would have been dumbfounded if asked how they were governed...
...ways of primitive societies, she found evidence to support her strong belief that cultural conditioning, not genetics, molded human behavior. That theme was struck most forcefully in Mead's 1928 classic, Coming of Age in Samoa. It described an idyllic pre-industrial society, free of sexual restraint and devoid of violence, guilt and anger. Her portrait of free-loving primitives shocked contemporaries and inspired generations of college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good to be true. While few question Mead's brilliance or integrity, subsequent research showed that Samoan society...