Word: minis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elsewhere this season, classical-ballet whiz Christopher Wheeldon has choreographed Vivaldi's ever popular The Four Seasons for the Boston Ballet (Sept. 28). The Kennedy Center in Washington presents The Legacy of Paul Taylor, a mini-festival featuring Taylor's latest, Fiends Angelical (Sept. 29-Oct. 8). And the Carolina Ballet, America's most promising young company, based in Raleigh, N.C., premieres a staging of Coppelia...
...Hill Mob. It saw him locate the suicidal pride of the colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
...Swamp Fox--Ohio Representative Mike Oxley and Louisiana Representative Billy Tauzin--held dueling parties during the week, bankrolled by many of the companies regulated by the committees. Both lawmakers drew on their personal traditions. Tauzin threw a mini Mardi Gras featuring Cajun cuisine, flashy beads and the New Orleans sound of the Neville Family Celebration. Oxley reached back to his love of early rock 'n' roll with a lineup that included Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon at the site of the old American Bandstand show, where his wife used to dance as a Philadelphia bobby-soxer. The immemorial Dick Clark...
...that these four were the only oddballs in town this week. There was Lenora Fulani, the ultra-leftist African-American independent politico and former Buchanan bedfellow, leading her entourage of New York delegates away from the Buchanan camp, into the Hagelin mini-convention, then back into the Buchanan side of the Reform convention seeking a larger walk-out of dissidents. There was an obese, half-naked Long Beach resident named "Ski" Demski, who entered the convention hall with his massive belly depicting tattoos of an American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow...
...dime-size wafer, not expected before 2025, would store micronutrients in hundreds of mini-reservoirs. After the wafer is swallowed, built-in sensors would respond to various chemicals, acids and proteins in the G.I.'s gut signaling hunger. A resulting small electrical charge would dissolve a thin gold cap on a reservoir, releasing the needed nutrients...