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...WILD REEDS Young love rarely seemed so tormented or rapturous as it does in Andre Techine's memory film. Political rivalries cloud a bucolic French town and Algerian war drums beat, but the main convulsions are romantic. A great date movie for teens with high sat scores and overheated hearts...
Some of the main weapons in Harvard's artillery who had big games against the Huskies were Alison Feaster (21 points)--the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second time in the past 21 days--and co-captains Proudfit and Elizabeth Gettelman. Along with the high expectations from key personnel, the Crimson hopes to clip the Eagles' wings with a smothering defense and fast-paced offense...
...that banks charge one another on overnight loans, from 5.75 percent to 5.5 percent. The key rate effects borrowing costs for consumers. The cut was announced after the highly anticipated meeting of the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee today. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan noted that a main reason for the reduction is that inflationary pressures are easing. This was the Fed's second interest rate cut this year, after seven interest-rate increases over a one-year period...
...busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military is beginning to dismantle its anti-aircraft radar installations, one of the main sources of worry to military planners. For details and an explanation of the major points of the accord, visit TIME World Wide's special page devoted to the U.S. mission in Bosnia with extended daily news, special audio reports from TIME correspondents abroad and other materials...
...fact, he was an artist of immense sophistication, the friend of Duchamp, Erik Satie, James Joyce and Ezra Pound. His work, with its flowing contours and obsessively refined surfaces, was one of the main sources for Art Deco style. Imagine the top of the Chrysler Building carved from oak, and you have something very like his sculptural bases. As Rowell points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth...