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Shoemaker—en route to Palma de Majorca, Spain, for the World Intercollegiate Championships on July 3, at which she finished 21st—missed a connecting flight to the island from the mainland despite arriving at the terminal with time to spare, thanks to her airline’s unfamiliar ticketing and boarding procedure. Waiting at the wrong counter until just after her scheduled flight finished boarding, the Crimson freestyle swimmer was left to jockey for a standby seat, which, after two failed attempts—and seven hours—wasn’t materializing...
...runner-up showing qualified her for the World Intercollegiate Championships tomorrow in Palma de Majorca, Spain. But despite her almost immediate success, the leap from swimming to triathlon was neither easy nor without its beneficial strokes of luck along...
...psychiatry students out there, this Brian de Palma (he of Carrie fame) slasher flick has an important lesson: never deny a mentally unhinged would-be transsexual the permission to receive a sex-change operation, or else he might start stalking and killing your patients. Luckily, there is a hooker with a heart of gold (Nancy Allen), who saves the day by helping the first victim’s child track down the killer. The dramatic apotheosis comes with the bizarre conclusion, which out psychos Psycho and shows off the best killer’s costume since Leatherface...
...from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; and celebrated the appeal of pop American moviemaking, where "trash" (a favorite term of praise) often gave more pleasure than "art." In the process, she set the tone and the tastes...
...giant nozzle of red sand rises, snakelike, and sucks the life out of three of them. So NASA sends a second crew (Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell). This solemn, often silly, sometimes beautiful space drama--surely the least facetious film of director Brian De Palma's career--echoes Richard C. Hoagland's 1987 book The Monuments of Mars. Hoagland postulates that the planet was once inhabited by superior beings who left their seed on Earth. The theory may not be hard science, but it can make for enthralling science fiction...