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Elaine's suicidal daughter, Grace (Lili Taylor), is a bizarre amalgamation of hobbies. Chain-smoking and accordion-wielding, Grace spends half her time playing with her transcendental turtles and the rest trying to seduce Axel. Whe finally succeeds, to tragic consequences, it's as if the two women are rifting on a sequel to "Mommie Dearest...
...tense scene, Grace and Axel play Russian roulette. Taylor's character is eerily suicidal. When she softly says, "You don't say no to this game," and, after Axel refuses to play, "Okay, then, my turn," her self-destructiveness acquires a pathetically sweet tone. Even though the scene is emotionally effective, it remains incongruous in the context of the mostly humorous film...
Women have more of a variety to choose from when they get dressed (or undressed). Not only is there a plethora of fabrics, but there are more styles to choose from as well. Granny-cut, french-cut, thong and bikini underwear all grace local lingerie sections. Highcut panties are a relatively new invention, designed to alleviate the problem of VPL (visible panty line to novices). In the 70's when tight polyester was the rage, the commonly worn granny underwear, which cuts into the tops of your legs, would leave a line that was noticeable from several feet away...
...little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...
...Olympics, with its melodramatic, widely followed confrontation between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, changed the sport dramatically. TV suddenly woke up to skating's telegenic grace, and the number of staged competitions-produced primarily for TV and lacking the strict rules that have governed amateur meets in the past-has multiplied. As a result, young skating stars today must not only beat back competition from the amateur ranks. They must also confront a new kind of rival: the pro skater. The stars who emerged from the past two Olympics have not faded into the half-life of touring ice shows...