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...José Manuel Carreńo, 37, A.B.T. When Carreńo decamped from Cuba in 1990, the move was almost unprecedented. "I'm kind of a pioneer," he says. He set a high standard for other expatriates to follow. Identified mostly with princely, heroic roles in "tutu ballets" like La Bayadčre and Don Quixote, he won Dance Magazine's 2004 award for contributions to dance, the first Cuban to do so since Alonso in 1958. The citation said, "He thrills audiences with his powerful leaps and glorious pirouettes, and breaks their hearts with his vulnerability...
...LA BęTE HUMAINE JEAN RENOIR Many years later, Renoir described this streamlined 1938 version of the Zola novel as a love triangle about a man, a woman and a locomotive. That sells short the sullen passion that binds sooty engineer Jean Gabin to kittenish femme fatale Simone Simon. An implacable film noir before noir was cool, this is atypical but essential Renoir, and a reminder that subtitles are no hindrance when a great director paints in the visual language of film...
...family would take a turn hosting it,” Rollins said. “Meaning we’d all get together in Pennsylvania with Emma and Niki, make the trip to Maine and my family would host, then Massachusetts for Liz, and all the way out to LA for Emily.”“That, of course, being accomplished throughout the four years we have here,” Rollins added.That’s right, four years, this being the first. And though the young Crimson is out of the Ivy title hunt this season...
...don’t bring anything especially new to the crowded garage-band potluck, but they’ve done a good job of sampling from the genre’s different tastes. Their guitars rattle and scream like those of the Hives, Turner occasionally shout-sings à la Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, and many of the pseudo-poppy melodies sound like a super-charged version of the Kaiser Chiefs...
...during the brouhaha following Summers’ first bout with the Faculty that a group of Summers supporters printed t-shirts parodying the iconic Che Guevara slogan, “Viva La Revolución!” Che’s visage was replaced with that of Summers, above the phrase: “Viva El Presidente Summers...