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...Hollywood skeptic, appraising Fred for the first time, the Astaires' stage stardom could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. The fuss must have been about Adele. Look at her brother. In long shot Fred's body photographed small, fragile, bewildered. In close-up he looked - and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted - like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." But oh, how he danced! That was evident from his second film, "Flying Down to Rio" (1933), when he was paired...
...biggest Swiss Army knife manufacturer. Buoyed by the knife's success, the Swiss Army line has morphed into watches, travel gear, apparel, cutlery, pens and eyewear. Victorinox's U.S. distributor, Swiss Army Brands of Shelton, Conn., opened its first retail store in New York last October selling rugged, no-fuss clothing and accessories. "Our designs are comfortable, practical and sturdy, appealing to people who lead active outdoor lives," says Thomas Lupinski, the company's chief financial officer. Meanwhile, Swiss Army Recycling Collection is conquering fashion frontiers with accessories made from old military blankets. After discovering unused blankets stockpiled...
Brace yourself, kids. Grit your teeth and clench your fists. Your relatives have traveled across oceans and continents for your graduation ceremony and, at several points during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going...
...simple, passionate argument--that he would never have sat idly if he had known what was coming on Sept. 11--helped stiffen spines. Republicans pointed out that members of congressional intelligence committees get the same information the President receives in his PDB and yet had not made a fuss about the Aug. 6 briefing. That claim was disputed; Tom Daschle, the Democrat's leader in the Senate, insisted the Senate and the Administration did not have "identical information" about al-Qaeda threats...
...plan, the primaries should be held on May 21st under the old plan. Moving the primary, the court determined, would have caused too much mayhem. Rendell and Casey breathed a collective sigh of relief and went back to fighting each other. Republicans didn't put up much of a fuss, because they were still pretty sure they would score a big win in the congressional races. And they comforted themselves with the knowledge that if the court had not intervened, they would have scored a major coup...