Word: en
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genially subversive Franco-Belgian Ma Vie en Rose, the town where Ludo and his family live is cheerily color-coordinated (each garage door is painted a different pastel), but the emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant...
Last season, en route to the Ancient Eight's first-ever undefeated women's basketball season, Harvard defeated Cornell and Columbia by a combined average margin of 18 points. However, the Lions did come within eight points of defeating the Crimson when Harvard traveled to New York City, and the Big Red handed the Crimson its only Ivy loss of the 1995-96 season...
...bold enough to wander by for a chat. There are no special privileges. If Grove rolls in late, he has to prowl Intel's jammed lot looking for a space just like any shavetail engineer. Craig Barrett, 58, Intel's president, sometimes shows up in lizard cowboy boots, often en route to his ranch in Montana from Japan or Malaysia. They are known universally as Andy and Craig. The just-folks culture did not originate at Intel--credit Bill Hewlett and David Packard--but Intel perfected the industrial-size version. Last winter the company announced that all its employees would...
...spaceship pilot or front-line soldier; actually, neither the film nor its characters acknowledge any gender gap at all. The harmony between male and female soldiers is so improbably complete that everyone showers together in the wide-open locker room. Sexual liaisons do occur among unit members, but cease en flagrante when the battle-siren sounds. Not a character in the movie questions any of this, and the military functions like clockwork...
...hopes for the sweep were eradicated quickly on the first night of play when the Golden Knights skated right by the Crimson en route to a 4-1 victory at Cheel Arena...