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Take for instance Pollini's performance of Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...
This is no porn-biz expose. It shows no women lured into fornicating on film; it doesn't finger the Mafia as a crucial investor. When Eddie inevitably splits with Jack, he has nowhere to go; Jack is apparently the only director in pornland. Nor is there much eroticism; indeed, except for the film's final shot, where we get to see Eddie's penis (granted, a nifty prosthetic effect), Boogie Nights has little nudity--it's a sex film that stints on the sex. And Holmes, who died of AIDS in 1988, had a life far more bizarre...
...Foundation, stood on a bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific," said Goodall, wearing rubber gloves as he sorted through...
...finger pointing that followed last week's abrupt withdrawal of two of the country's favorite diet pills looked like a multiple-choice law-school torts exam, the similarity was hardly coincidental. Even before the FDA urged the recall of Redux (dexfenfluramine)--and Pondimin (fenfluramine), the front half of the fat-pill combo known as fen/phen--scores of lawyers across the nation had already started filing lawsuits. After the recall, the legal assault turned into a stampede. "Everyone saw money," says Jacoby & Meyers' Gail Koff...
...methods with a computerized version of her darling septanote. Everyone from Council Vice President Mark Price to her own father back in Illinois may pocket computerized planners, but Lamelle-like the vast majority of students-remains skeptical of the new technology, preferring the tangible immediacy of string-around-the-finger reminders...