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...Double Platinum, fans of the good-girl Brandy will be glad to note that her character does not rob any banks or try to whack her mother. But her acting does show off some unexpected shadings. As a singer, Brandy's voice is slight, too weak-kneed to carry heavy burdens of emotion. On the small screen, however, she has found her medium: she has an easy way about her that invites us into her character's emotions. As the star of 1997's highly rated ABC-TV movie Cinderella, she brought a 'round-the-way elegance to the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Stop! In the Name of Divas | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...aging, creaky-kneed Ewing, still seeking his first NBA title in his 14th season, then hit a banker in the lane and the Knicks had their second victory in a row after starting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knicks Still Hate Bulls, Win 73-68; Hawks Soar | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...peculiarities of his own body. "He was a bit bent and crooked by nature," recalls Reinking, "and somewhat pigeon-toed." The style that resulted, says Fosse dance captain Brad Musgrove, was the antithesis of the expansive approach of classical ballet: "It's all turned in. You're knock-kneed, you roll over on your ankles, you're sitting into your hip, you're arching your back, the elbows are in, the wrists are flexed. You have to work exactly the opposite from the way you're trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Seamy and Steamy | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...promised he would remake the world in the first 100 days. The first thing most voters learned about Clinton was how hard it was to kill him, as he slogged through New Hampshire in 1992, no voice, no sleep, no shame, swatting away his enemies on his bare-kneed crawl to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Of The House Of Newt | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Anyone who saw The English Patient knows that return trips aren't always easy in the desert, and Augustin soon discovers that he has no more idea how to return to Jean-Michel then he does how to find the lost regiment. His heat-stroked, knock-kneed peregrinations around the desert land him into new trouble, especially when he steals water from a Bedouin maiden. The resultant man-hunt sends Augustin hiding in a deep crevasse in a large, barren plateau, but no sooner has he escaped their swords than he runs into a whole new set of daggers, this...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Desert Passion Meditates on Man and Beast | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

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