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...exist in a dismal, colorless world run by evil and greed. Suddenly, a streak of orange blazes across the sky. It's a plane, it's superman.... No, it's a bird...

Author: By Diana R. Movius, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take Me Out to (and Knock Me Out at) the Ballet | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...somehow logical, carefully developed through choreography. The Firebird herself, given frantic, bird-like steps, seems supernatural, wrought with the frustration of being the sole guardian of good in a realm deprived of it. The princesses dance barefoot, as if to accentuate their delicacy and femininity in a dismal bleak world, and also their child-like helplessness in Kastchei's realm. Yet when the princesses are alone, they joke and socialize; true to the human element, they retain hope, never do the characters give in to benign acceptance of their situation's injustice. In the end, when Ivan and the Firebird...

Author: By Diana R. Movius, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take Me Out to (and Knock Me Out at) the Ballet | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Getting nervous? In the past two weeks, the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen 529 points, a drop of nearly 10% since its August peak, punctuating a dismal third quarter. Investors are hoping--praying might be a better word--that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will decide against the third interest-rate hike of 1999 when the central bank's Open Market Committee meets this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worried About the Dollar | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...that's pretty much all the news from Random Hearts, a grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal. Ford is a Washington detective named Dutch Van Den Broeck; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman named Kay Chandler. Both their spouses are killed in a plane crash, and he suspects--his obsessive nature and the habits of his profession driving him on--that they were lovers. She perhaps agrees, but prefers denial and resumption of her re-election campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Heartsick | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Fuerloins was Doyle's "colleague" in Physics 125 during the 1997-98 academic year. According to CUE guide evaluations submitted by students in the course, Doyle received a 4.9 CUE guide rating, while Fuerloins received a dismal score...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Physics Dept. Tenures Doyle | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

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