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...similar dry, wry spirit, something of a trademark with Eric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, The Aviator's Wife), moves through Le Beau Manage. A brisk young woman named Sabine (Beatrice Romand) quite sensibly grows tired of transitory affairs (and the preoccupations married men bring to them) and calmly informs friends and family that she is about to marry, though she does not yet know whom. She is confident, however, based on past experience, that she can ensnare any man she wants. Her choice is a good-looking lawyer (Andre Dussollier), the right number of years older, the right...
...NEVER THOUGHT OF. There, the urban dropouts learn the value of independent thought, honest employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis, and it flowed like a surfer. As it swept nearer, Teresa saw it was somebody in cutoffs and knee warmers, a girl because she had an elastic top. She was riding a skateboard and wearing headphones clamped over both ears. She looked like . . . something intelligent but brutal from science fiction." Peck, 48, an American who attended Oxford, echoes his colleagues in teen realism when he says, "We rarely celebrate...
...Syrian in a crew cut was in the street when a shell hit. His right leg was blown off at the knee. He is engaged to be married. His fiancee in Syria does not know what has happened to him. He wonders if she will still love...
...grands jetes were supposed to be no more than a leap of the imagination. Grounded by a knee injury at 34, almost twice the age of some of his male colleagues, Mikhail Baryshnikov seemed destined for full-time duty as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater. But last week at the 19th century Teatro Nuovo at Spoleto, Italy, "Misha" returned to his airborne artistry, performing with elan in Other Dances, a new work by Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63. As for speculation that his turn as a dancer is almost over, "That 'almost' can mean...
Coming from a high school team in Memphis which used six players on a team, Denise tried out for Harvard basketball without ever having "shot a basketball before in my life." On the junior varsity her freshman year, Williams tore her right knee ligament in the middle of the season. She only saw action a few times but says her play improved steadily towards the end of the season. Denise says that some "would question their career in basketball" after a season like that, "but not me. I love the sport...