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...more enjoyable pieces are the ones that explore the differences between the friendships of men and those of women. Yet one of the most glorious dances in the entire ballet has to be the final number, in which the couples simultaneously perform the exact same duet-yet none of them even notice one another. They dance this dance of love together, yet entirely alone...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Ballet Learns How to Boogie | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...early birds are angered when it comes their turn and they do not receive more money despite the longer hours they put in. The vineyard owner chides them pointing out that they got exactly what they had agreed to work for, and than what others received should be none of their concern...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Christianity Cannot Be Simply Defined | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...quickly established that Brad's siblings are staggeringly mean, given to berating him in tandem with statements like: "If we put mamma in a home, she'll die, you know. And it'll be all your fault." But other than this single, salient feature, none of the characters are clearly drawn. We know that Scott's a jerk because he's a Christian minister, which in this context is shorthand for hypocritical bastard. He's also deserving of ridicule because he refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Dead Babies, Geraldo and New Orleans | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

...certainly not without significance. Salinger is among the most reclusive men in the universe. For a living writer whose works are admired by so many and who is often called one of the most important literary figures of the century, he only has four books to his name, and none in nearly 35 years...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Franny & Zooey & Me | 10/23/1996 | See Source »

...fact see Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, since it is being rereleased in a new, clean print in eight cities. There are several scary scenes in the movie, but none as terrifying as when Kim Novak presents her remade self to Jimmy Stewart. She is dressed in a gray suit and a white blouse, and her hair is done up in a seascape of blond waves. Stewart has wholly recreated her in the image of the dead woman he loved. Only, as the plot twists, and though Stewart does not yet know it, this is the dead woman he loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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