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...Since Bophuthatswana is in theory independent, there is no segregation. We were surrounded by Blacks, some of whom shot hostile glances at us or appeared to be sizing us up. We had narrowly escaped being robbed in downtown Johannesburg that morning by a young Black with a six-inch knife. Except when he retreats to his home in the suburbs, the white South African feels immersed in a sea of unfriendly Blacks...
...will ever forget their names, but, by the same token, so monstrously huge that they will never come close to matching it. It's a career built on the past, and thus that much safer for the audience; no surprises here. Orlando sings Sweet Gypsy Rose and Mack the Knife, says a few kind words about Tom Jones--an over-the-hill Wayne Newton, but an upscale Engelbert Humperdinck--and then talks about his inspiration. Two men have inspired him, Orlando says, two men whose lives laid out the path that would take him past "Knock Three Times...
...actresses. More seems to be going on. It is not simply that she manages to make her face an astonishingly clear reflection of her character's complexities. It is not merely that this pale face, with its small, amused eyes and its nose long and curved as a flensing knife (when she kissed Alan Alda injudiciously in Tynan, this precarious nose displaced the flesh of his cheek up toward his eyeball), is poised fascinatingly between beauty and harshness. What makes the viewer sit forward in his seat is that Streep is so thoroughly a creature of change. Her expression...
...went into a decline. A revival-the beginning of the Golden Age of Makeup-began with Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Exorcist (1973) and scores of films featuring a graphic spilling of blood and guts. In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, some 20 years ago, a knife was never seen touching the victim, played by Janet Leigh. "Now, they want it to cut right through," says Mike Westmore, who did Robert De Niro's makeup in Raging Bull. "Movies run in strings, and we are now in a blood-spurting...
...passing broadside the still formidable-looking cannons of the three-masted frigate U.S.F. Constellation, one of the first warships commissioned by the infant republic in 1797. The developer looks in on several retailers in the Pratt Street complex, which houses mostly smart boutiques and specialty stores like the Chesapeake Knife and Tool and the Powder Room, which sells cosmetics. The Rouse Co. carefully screens the tenants in all its projects. At Harborplace, out of an initial 2,000 applications, only about 30 were chosen. Says Rouse: "When we have openings in our shopping centers, we look for tenants...