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...medicine men," the teacher tells the class, "who came up with the religious beliefs that are the backbone of our Navajo culture." Lloyd | House speaks in a gravelly voice, has a boxer's much broken nose and wears a traditional turquoise necklace around his neck. "The medicine man we are talking about today was called Naahwiitbiihi -- which means the 'man who always wins.' Sounds like Frank Sinatra, doesn't it?" he says, and chuckles...
First, Iraqi troops annexed the country whose flag the airline carries. Then they seized 15 of the carrier's 23 jetliners. But even though it can no longer land at home, the plucky little carrier has managed to continue operating up and down the gulf, right under Saddam's nose. Last week Kuwait Airways announced that starting next month, it will offer transatlantic service from New York City to London, Cairo, Bahrain and Bombay. Said ads in the New York Times and several Middle East newspapers: "Until we're able to welcome you to Kuwait, welcome aboard...
There is, of course, more to Cyrano than there was to, say, Flynn's Robin Hood or Fairbanks' Zorro. Immortally, he is a man with a hero's moves but not a hero's looks. He is afflicted with a nose that is kindly described as heroic, and unkindly (and more commonly) thought to be simply grotesque -- and hugely comical. It accounts for his hair-trigger temperament. It also accounts for his melancholy, because it prevents him from speaking his love for his cousin Roxane (spunky, winsome Anne Brochet). Until, that is, she becomes enamored of handsome, tongue-tied Christian...
What opportunities for wistful gallantry this presents the actor who plays Cyrano, and how tenderly Depardieu seizes them. His peasant frame is the perfect support for that nose, which seems less a theatrical device, more a natural outgrowth of Cyrano's spirit than it does when puttied on more lissome leading men. Depardieu's Cyrano has a slowness and stubbornness that make one realize how willed his dashing public personality is, how much it is a way of deflecting attention from a self he finds shameful. This imparts a particular poignancy to the final sequence, in which he at last...
Contrary to popular belief, wearers say, noserings are not cold against the skin in the winter. They do not fly out when the wearer sneezes. And they are not annoying, even with a runny nose, wearers said...