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EVEN IF THE other two principals performed on Bates' level, they probably couldn't dispel the moribund mood that suffuses Nijinsky.. The photography in each scene is beautiful, but the pace drags from one opulent set to another. This procession of stupefying splendor may be deliberate--Nijinsky cries at one point that he's tired of the "endless dressing rooms, hotel rooms," and as his insanity increases, he babbles of a simple life on the farm. But this theme of Nijinsky's fatigue with a decadent life remains sketchy, and the script in general botches character development. After painstaking...
...again for India. While there, he fell in love with and later married a French woman raised in Morocco who sensitized him to the wealth of non-Western cultures. he explains. At the same time the student uprisings that brought Paris to a near-standstill in 1968 helped to dispel Marglin's belief in the immutability of the capitalist order. Marglin returned to Harvard no longer believing that the liberal position made sense...
That situation did not arise. The new government of Surinam, eager to dispel any notions that the coup might be another situation like Iran's, in which foreigners were held hostage, arranged for the departure of the researchers, who returned Wednesday night...
...philosophy. The years of misty evocations of Zen consciousness, bachelor pad living, and inviting royalty to brown-bag lunches have taken their toll, however--the image of unorthodoxy that was Brown's greatest asset in 1976 has now become his chief liability. Brown's campaign staff works furiously to dispel the conception of the governor as a "California flake...
...company announced that it had entered into an agreement with Citibank, the second largest banking organization in the U.S., to assist the bank's millionaire clients in acquiring artworks for investment. Though Sotheby's insists that the arrangement contains sufficient built-in checks and balances to dispel any suspicion of conflict of interest, many people in the art world are skeptical of any deal whereby an auction house may in effect end up supporting its own market. Says David Bathurst, Christie's New York president: "Using art as an investment scares the hell out of me. There...