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Female musicians with a cannily erotic appeal could always be found--in the movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled...
DARDEN WANTED HIS FACE-OFF WITH Cochran. And he got it. "I know Chris is a mano-a-mano guy," says Cochran. "He likes to one-up you. He likes to put it away. He likes to be real tough in trial and really impressive." Cochran says. During a break in testimony about Simpson's purchase of the leather gloves from Bloomingdale's, Shapiro and Cochran decided to try the gloves on for themselves. "They felt small to me," Cochran says, "and we both told [Simpson], 'They're going to ask you to put the gloves...
...addition to the unsettling threat of mano-a-mano violence, the ancestral environment featured periodic starvation, incurable disease and the prospect of being eaten by a beast. Such inconveniences of primitive life have recently been used to dismiss the Unabomber's agenda. The historian of science Daniel Kevles, writing in the New Yorker, observes how coarse the "preindustrial past" looks, once "stripped of the gauzy romanticism of myth." Regarding the Unabomber's apparent aim of reversing technological history and somehow transporting our species back toward a more primitive age, Kevles declares, "Most of us don't want to live...
...Aristide, whose term ends next February, cannot succeed himself, but has said he might run again in 2000.TINDER BOX? Insiders say that the Port-au-Prince mayoral election results are so explosive that public reaction to them could jeopardize national stability, TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt when a disturbance broke...
Rule No. 2: Remake what didn't work. Transferring popular video games to the big screen, for example, has proved expensive and unproductive -- witness the Super Mario Brothers and Streetfighter films. Undaunted, New Line is bringing the mano-a-macho belligerents of Mortal Kombat to movie life. And what's with all these kilts? First Rob Roy, then Gibson's Braveheart. It's one more genre, like westerns (and astronaut films), that studios make mostly because veteran stars and directors want to. Walter Hill has a new western, Wild Bill, with Jeff Bridges, and the principals hope it will imitate...