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...photo caption on the front page of Friday's newspaper mis-spelled the name of the founder of the new women's group Seventh Sense. She is Ashwini Sukthankar...
...however, was the difficult and important role danced by the female corps de ballet. Swan Lake challenges the 32-member corps to match and refine their movements into one coherent unit, synthesizing their complex array of patterns and moods into a synchronized succession of "visual feasts." Despite a few mis-timed steps and occasionally uneven spacing, the corps de ballet was largely successful in creating its elegant illusion of swanhood...
...pours out her dreams in poems. On old paper salvaged from her office wastebins, she writes Dias de Mis Suenos, The Days of My Dreams: "I think of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and invite them to a party and give them a gift. Always the night ends with them drinking and playing music that makes me escape from this place...
Altman based the film's nine interweaving narratives on his (mis)reading of Carver's ouevre, taking a set of poignant midwestern vignettes and turning them into a heavy-handed Hydra living out its pointless existence under the scorching sun of Los Angeles, the city where dreams die, or whatever. Setting "Short Cuts" in L.A., with all its metaphorical baggage, was a huge mistake on Altman's part, though only one of many. The main one was probably in trying to translate Carver's fragile stories to the screen in the first place...
...trend doesn't exist. Baseball fans are as much turned off by the way the sport is mis-run as they are attracted to the game. The number of people attending baseball games as a percentage of the total urban population is not increasing, despite what those who run baseball would have us believe...