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...circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill and Martini for a campy imitation of peasant dances to a revved-up Slavic-sounding recording called Morning Gymnastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Spectacle for Thinking Adults | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

There is, of course, more to Cyrano than there was to, say, Flynn's Robin Hood or Fairbanks' Zorro. Immortally, he is a man with a hero's moves but not a hero's looks. He is afflicted with a nose that is kindly described as heroic, and unkindly (and more commonly) thought to be simply grotesque -- and hugely comical. It accounts for his hair-trigger temperament. It also accounts for his melancholy, because it prevents him from speaking his love for his cousin Roxane (spunky, winsome Anne Brochet). Until, that is, she becomes enamored of handsome, tongue-tied Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Return of The Swashbuckler | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...durable, but I have driven the Civic and my impression is that the Saturn's performance, handling and amenities all measure up to its Japanese rival. The Saturns have been designed for easy servicing too, right down to the transparent, easy-to-read fluid reservoirs under the hood and the clearly labeled fuse boxes and dipsticks. Someone at Saturn has been doing a lot of thinking about what the buyer wants, and that's some of the best news out of Detroit in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Road Test: Does the Car Measure Up? | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N.J.--Robin Hood robbed from the Tigers and gave to the Crimson as the Harvard women's soccer team beat Princeton here at Laurie-Love Field Saturday...

Author: By Tom Kane, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Reilly Stops Penalty Kick to Preserve W. Booters' 1-0 Blanking of Princeton | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Still, Hood said the corporation is taking action in response to the incident. "We're looking at making some changes," she said. "We're closing the store earlier beginning tonight, at 8 as opposed...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kendall `Au Bon Pain' Robbed | 10/19/1990 | See Source »

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