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Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia manages to carry off a remarkable yardage of black leather and five-inch heels without coming across as a cardboard pin-up. Supposedly ambitious and bright, she is also quite vulnerable, particularly in her relationship with the Kid, a seductive imp who insists on a Kid-centered universe and turns nasty when his supremacy is threatened. The love between the two frequently reenacts the relationship between the Kid's parents, a failed-musician Black father whose frustration leads him to beat his white wife viciously. When Apollonia announces that she plans to accept a place...
...writer and star of Yentl-spent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this faraway fable aspects of her own autobiography, and made Yentl a metaphor for the long struggle of womankind...
American youths would have to fight if the U.S. government intervened militarily in Central America. Contreras said, adding that students could play an imp ortant role in opposing the Reagan Administration's policy...
...Orange and Black clearly has the backing of the kingdom of evil. Take lead imp Doug Butler, the sophomore quarterback with the deadly arm. Last week he set an NCAA record for most pass attempts in a game without an interception (55). The upstart signal caller owns a passing rating higher than that of Columbia superstar John Witkowski. Supernatural...
...imp was Earl Weaver, the bow his last at a major league ballpark, at least for now. After 15 wildly successful seasons, he was stepping down from the Orioles' helm. Hesitatingly, uncharacteristically, Weaver was basking in one final warm moment of adulation, before watching his name drift off to the Street and Smith's yearbook of history, with all the other Bobby Thompsons, Monte Irvins, and Red Schoendists of baseball lore. It was at once a touching and thrilling moment--for even the most hardbitten of Yankee or Brewer fans. And for the Oriole fan, it almost was like watching...