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...Petrov wear their erudition on their sleeves in “The Golden Calf.” The novel is filled with cues from high and low culture—colorful and referential insults, classical literature, and cosmopolitan knowhow. One pretend madman, exercising freedom of speech as his alter ego declares, “Et tu, Brute, sold out the Bolsheviks!” The novel also takes particular interest in allusions to “The Brothers Karamazov,” and at one point Ostap conflates the story of Jason’s Golden Fleece with the titular...
...complain. As directed by Mike Nichols and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, it has as much charm, vigor and musical-comedy knowhow as anything on Broadway. But a Telegraph of London headline for a story about the show got it right: "And Now for Something Completely Familiar...
...like curtains to learn the tricks of the trade?how a $10,000 French handbag is stitched or where Brazilian gemstones are mined. But at Swarovski crystals in Wattens, Austria, a town of 8,000 about 20 minutes northeast of Innsbruck by car, the factory?and all the technical knowhow stashed inside?is strictly off limits...
...managed to splash a bit of that color around her room with stylish knowhow. A random assortment of pop postcards are displayed among cultured pictures of her favorite arists including Man Ray and Klimt. There is a Brattle Theater schedule and ads from recent Dolce and Gabbana ads (Agnes was intrigued by the way the ad campaign changed from season to season—black and white photos of exotic women one minute and technicolor Westernized shots the next) On the personal side, Agnes keeps a picture of her boyfriend and her name written in Chinese characters at eye level...
...like they were having a log of successin the weight room," Welkom says. "I needed togain weight and strength to get a chance to play,and what I did gain helped my blocking and myspeed. Some of the less flexible players takingcreatine experienced muscle pulls but I don't knowhow much of that was due to creatine...