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...covered would add up to exactly 165 yds. Until last year China's most powerful patriarch would complete this circuit 20 times in the course of his two daily walks. He was extremely serious about his count, carefully ticking off the rounds to himself each time he finished a lap...
...Misdemeanors) or the earlier, funny one (Bananas). Now, after the tabloid headlines and a few box-office flops, the issue is starker: Is Woody Allen still a viable filmmaker? In this year's Bullets over Broadway, he retreated to the sort of schematic period piece that friendly critics usually lap up, and they did. Now he has regressed further -- back to his first play, Don't Drink the Water. What's more, he has cast himself in the lead and directed it for TV, his first foray into the medium since...
...problem doesn't end with pencils and pens. Soon, all those lap-top-pushers (the ones whose faces are lit up by an cerie bluish glow in lecture) will want to fill out their CUE Guide forms on disk. Fortunately, that day won't come until we're all safely out of graduate school...
P.R.I. officials were outraged last week not so much by Ruiz Massieu's message as by the grandstand manner in which he delivered it. His move has served to push the issue into the lap of the incoming President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, who will be inaugurated this week. Although a political cartoon last week depicted Zedillo nervously kicking away a ticking time bomb, it is almost certain that he will have to respond to the accusations against leaders of his party, many of whom were once expected to get top jobs when he took office. Like...
Terfel likes to say that as a singer "you are in the lap of the gods." He believes they gave him a perfect upbringing, in the shelter of a small North Wales village near Snowdonia. His family are farmers; his first language is Welsh. Not for nothing is Wales called "the land of song." There, singing is not a self-conscious act but a community expression. Eisteddfods, or local song contests, flourish even in hamlets. Young Bryn won a long string of them and used the modest prize money to buy soccer shoes...