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...from the floor to lifts into the air. As the music builds, so does the emotion and intricacy of the steps until the scene ends with Tatiana sending her letter to Onegin. Larissa Ponamarenko is a beautifully delicate Tatiana who in each lift seems to be wafted like a feather on a breath...
...sudden thaw of accumulated ice and snow. In California alone, 95,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers throughout the state wash out bridges and turn suburban streets into canals. The entire towns of Yuba City and Marysville, located on either side of the Feather River in northern California, had to be cleared out, as a levee broke five miles south of the two towns, sending a wall of water tumbling toward them. Numerous highways, many providing the only links between populated areas, have been all but washed away. In Northern California, Interstate...
Despite the late-game jitters, how sweet success is for coach Tim Murphy and Harvard. Murphy can put the final feather in his inaugural cap--an Ivy League home victory--after three long seasons at the helm...
...story of Roxie Hart is told in a series of fiercely stylized, irony-laced musical episodes. In the Cell Block Tango, Roxie's jailbird peers sing of the men they've bumped off. A slick defense attorney makes his entrance crooning "All I care about is love," accompanied by feather-waving chorines. In the climactic trial, Roxie beats the rap, only to be abandoned by reporters rushing on to the next sensational case. What seemed cynical in 1975 is now au courant. Chicago hasn't merely aged well; it has come...
...Sigrid Nunez's much praised first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God, the protagonist, a daughter of joyless immigrant parents, leaves her pained life in New York City to teach English in China. Never having experienced a sense of emotional belonging, she now chooses a life that will make her perpetual sense of alienation all the more urgent...