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...hard to tell where his choreography begins and Petipa's ends. In a valiant effort to make psychological sense of the plot, he has turned the scenes involving the Saracen and his court into a dream sequence-a wedding-bound maiden's erotic fantasy about a phantom lover. Beyond that, Nureyev has blessedly jettisoned narrative, so that for the most part his Raymonda is a two-hour experience in pure dance...
Popping a pop-rock cassette into the tape deck, Elton props his feet next to the television and watches the Bond Street shoppers through the tinted windows of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. "Turn here," he instructs the chauffeur, and as the burnished ark glides to a halt, Elton hikes his high-waisted green slacks and prepares to enter Cartier...
...name. Yet anonymity seems much less a trick than an act of painful discretion by Joyce Eliason. Her book, a first novel, is spare and direct, told in a series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...
Tactically, the most important American units in South Korea may be the U.S. Air Force units; their supersonic F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers are needed to offset the 3-to-1 superiority in air power that the North boasts over the South. Other key U.S. units provide antiaircraft and surface-to-surface missile support, and field engineering, trucking and logistics battalions...
When Bruce finally revved up with enough style and conviction to shoot a short scene, the results were not initially impressive. Director Brian De Palma (Phantom of the Paradise), a buddy of Spielberg's, visited the Vineyard and saw the director trudging out from watching Bruce's first rushes. "It was like a wake," recalls De Palma. "Bruce's eyes crossed, and his jaws wouldn't close right." There was a long moment of hopeless silence, broken finally by Richard Dreyfuss. "If any of us had any sense," he said, "we'd all bail...