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...more important contribution than a more famous GRU turncoat, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, who was executed in 1963 for supplying the U.S. with information during the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the secret agents the U.S. recruited during the cold war, says CIA director James Woolsey, "Polyakov was the jewel in the crown...
...often preserved by eleventh- hour plot devices (in the case of The Sheik, Valentino's character was revealed to be an Englishman in Middle Eastern drag). More recently, crudely comic variations on this theme have had Western women fending off oversexed petrosheiks in films like Protocol (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile...
...compact discs, the savvy buyer can pick up the Brahms cycle for less than $35 dollars in the coupon-saturated Square. However, one might be disappointed to discover Philip's unorthodox packaging scheme--the discs are stored in TyvekTM sleeves within cardboard boxes, rather than in the traditional jewel-box trappings. But external aesthetics aside, what of the music itself...
First, there was a beautiful field--Fenway is a jewel of authentic authenticity (hello, Baltimore?) among major league diamonds...
...production of Swan Lake remains a vehicle for true cultural and emotional understanding. Even the most inexperienced viewer cannot remain untouched by the absorbing energy and beauty of the production. After its 1990 grand premire, Swan Lake. appeared again in 1992; it has evolved into the "glittering, critically-acclaimed jewel in the crown" of the Boston Ballet's repertoire, to use the modest words of Boston Ballet's own magazine, Sightless. While the production is politically avant-garde, Marks' interpretation remains utterly traditional...