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Sales of the Ozbek line jumped 264% to a neat $1 million last year. He is backed by a Geneva-based oil company, Gulf Shipping, whose owner met Ozbek at a party and considered him such a comer that he has never bothered to see a collection. Unlike Kelly, who has found himself without enough money to ride the Metro, Ozbek receives both salary and commission from Gulf. For a young designer, it seems like a snug setup, but Ozbek keeps things modest. His offices overlook a cranny-like courtyard in Mayfair, his staff numbers seven, and his fashion shows...
...heart of darkness, he incurs the wrath of wife, ex-lover, police, and hapless passersby, and attracts the affections of one of his older students. The climax at the headmasters' conference is a hilarious recreation of Simpson's schoolroom with adult students, bringing the plot into a neat full circle...
...younger skaters, participating in the Jimmy Fund show is something of a dream come true. "All the skaters are really popular so you get to meet a lot of neat people," says 14-year-old Liane Moscato, a ninth grader from Peabody, who will skate in Sunday's show...
...wandering libido. When, on learning that Hubby is fooling around with someone at the office, she waits for him to come home, stabs him dead with a kitchen knife, then cleans the weapon and replaces it daintily in its holder. Edna (the quietly spectacular Martha Henry) is a neat freak who freaks...
Screenwriter-Director Leon Marr (adapting a novel by Joan Barfoot) is a neat freak with images. Every shot is composed precisely enough to win Edna's approval. The cool, creepy, witty splendor of this Canadian psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat...