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...ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale skin. So, as in his 1994 Danish TV series, The Kingdom (a bizarre blend of ER and Twin Peaks), he uses a handheld camera that swivels like a bobble-head doll. It's intimate, all right, and utterly maniacal--as deranged as the villagers think Bess has become...
...impact of the Belle signing has already been felt in the White Sox ticket office, where the phones have been ringing off the hook. Last year only 21,220 fans a game came to the new Comiskey Park to watch the Pale Hose futilely chase the Indians. Reinsdorf had the Big Hurt, Thomas, at first base, and a bigger hurt in the empty upper deck. The best team in the history of basketball was not enough for him. "My first love is baseball," he says. "I will not rest easy until I win the World Series." And that would...
Charlie's caters to beer connoisseurs, offering ales such as seasonal Sam Adams Oktoberfest and Harpoon Indian Pale...
...beaded satin sandals were from Manolo Blahnik, designer of pricey, fashionable shoes. In her hands, covered by long white gloves, she carried a small bouquet of lilies of the valley. The groom wore a dark blue single-breasted suit, designed by Gordon Henderson, with a white pique vest and pale blue silk tie. His boutonniere was made of cornflowers, the favorite flower of his father, and he wore his father's watch...
...informants at overseas hospitals who watch for foreign officials checking in for treatment. It employs a dozen doctors and psychiatrists to review videos of world leaders for signs of physical or mental ailments: weight changes, pale skin, unsteady gait, even wrinkles on ear-lobes (one indication of heart problems). For example, agency physicians privately concluded that the late French President Francois Mitterrand had cancer more than a decade before he made it public. But on July 3, on the morning of the Russian presidential vote, the CIA received a call from Clinton aides: Why hasn't Boris Yeltsin been seen...