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...Infante, who looked like a cross between William Holden with a mustache and the young Eli Wallace in Baby Doll, was a man's man: a carpenter by trade and an amateur boxer for pleasure. (A grueling fight, as bloody and intense as anything in Raging Bull, serves as the climax to his 1953 Pepe el Toro.) He was a fanatic about his workout regimen. In a time when Hollywood movies rarely revealed much of their male stars below the collar, Pedro went topless in nearly every film, displaying the bulky muscularity he was so proud of. You could count...
...Pink Floyd, the Police and Leonard Cohen. Commendable influences to be sure, but one wonders if the College Events Board mightn’t have chosen a group with a broader fan base: Aqua, of ”Barbie Girl” fame, leaps to mind. Apparently, the eponymous doll serves as a metaphor for soulless corporate conformity, a more resonant message with Harvard’s highbrow listeners. The choice of Third Eye Blind was made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead’s “OK Computer?...
...Throughout the day, onlookers and television viewers caught glimpses of the children, aged four to eight, through gaps in the bus' curtains as they periodically waved at TV cameras. One girl in a ponytail could be seen caressing a Barbie doll behind the front window. Another child, reportedly suffering from a fever, was released shortly after noon and taken to Manila hospital...
...local elementary school; university students in uniforms - yes, college kids wear uniforms in Bangkok - lug backpacks full of books. But just a few blocks away is one of the city's many saucy neighborhoods: Soi Cowboy, a neon-lit stretch boasting clubs such as Spice Girls and Doll House. During the day, I can walk Cassius, my pet schnauzer, down Soi Cowboy, and she gets friendly pats from sex workers in hot pants and plastic miniskirts. Even the poodle owned by a fearsome-looking mama-san doesn't mind a fuzzy interloper. With Cassius in tow, my husband does...
...rich for some people's taste, and too thin. Men might call her "the thin girl" in Love in the Afternoon) or "the bird girl" (Green Mansions) or funny face. Funny face? C'est a rire. She looked great in basic black, whether as the existential rag doll of Fred Astaire or the bride of Christ in The Nun's Story. Indeed, in her transformation movies - Sabrina and Funny Face and My Fair Lady - she always looked more gorgeous in Phase One (mousy) than Phase Two (elegant), more ravishing with her hair down than up, with her dress casual than...