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...homage to the gaudy innocence of the Cyndi Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps spinning until we are in Weimar * Berlin, with Madonna in Dietrich drag warbling Teutonic twaddle: ''Like a wer- gin, touched for the werry vurst time.'' She is Carmen Miranda (Going Bananas), Gene Kelly (La Isla Bonita), the Brigitte Helm robot goddess from the silent film Metropolis. She saves her best anachronistic joke for last: the steamy Justify My Love is performed in stately cadence and Edwardian morning coats. It might be the Ascot Gavotte from My Fair Lady. Nostalgia, as wispy as the scent of marijuana...
...country and my people,'' Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado wrote in an advertising supplement, ''(the World Cup) will give us a chance of showing the world the reality of Mexico.'' So, alas, it has. When the President stepped forward before 300 million TV viewers around the globe to open the quadrennial soccer tournament three weeks ago, his speech was drowned out by an almost unprecedented chorus of boos. A few days later, Mexico City's huge Aztec Stadium, unfilled even during a major game, ran out of water. At one point its official clock broke down; at another...
...Paris during the company's 1982 engagement because her portrayal was not yet ''precise.'' But the debut was a triumph. She enchanted the Western press, and word of her began to spread. On this year's tour, Asylmuratova mostly danced the role of Nikiya in the Shades sequence of La Bayadere. It was a grandly imagined, romantic portrayal that sailed out over the footlights. She is married to Konstantin Zaklinsky, one of the Kirov's leading male dancers and its handsomest. She likes to dance with him, cook for him, anything but rehearse with him. ''We are both very critical...
...pilgrims included many young priests, monks and nuns, and the event is likely to generate more calls to the religious life. At a World Youth Day "vocations expo," business was brisk. Brother Mark McKeon, director of vocations for the De La Salle order, said the order's recruiting campaign had drawn 12,000 website hits in the past few weeks. "Obviously, a vocation like this is not for everyone," McKeon told the Herald Sun newspaper, "but we have noticed that young people seem to want a cause they can commit...
...solemn anniversary seemed an appropriate time to launch this effort--and the meeting itself will occur the next day, Sept. 12. The summit will also be the first major public event for ServiceNation, a national campaign of more than 100 organizations--ranging from AARP to the National Council of La Raza and Habitat for Humanity--that collectively represent some 100 million Americans. My co-chairs at the summit will be Alma Powell, Caroline Kennedy, Carnegie president Vartan Gregorian and AARP CEO Bill Novelli. The summit will be opened by New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, who himself is an exemplar...