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...road and looking for kicks? If soccer's your game, with a little advance planning, you can pound the pitch with players whose abilities match your own in a variety of capital cities: • Brussels' Parc du Cinquantenaire in the E.U. quarter is popular for its central location and many flat fields. Head to the Bois de la Cambre in southern Brussels on any weekend afternoon and you'll find several games in progress. On weekdays, try the British School in Tervuren, just 12 km from central Brussels and easily accessible via the No. 44 tram. • Prague's large...
David Lean directed this underrated epic—a love story set against the turmoil of early 20th century Russia—as his followup to the gorgeous but lifeless Lawrence of Arabia. Doctor Zhivago retains Lawrence’s social conscience and its pitch-perfect cinematography, but, unlike Lawrence, it also possesses the compelling characters and tense, terse plotting that so distinguished Lean’s masterpieces Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter. Stars Omar Sharif and Julie Christie could not be lovelier, but supporting players Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger and especially Tom Courtenay also have ample...
While most of her male rivals chug out their vocal lines in plodding pedestrian style, Dalle weaves her lyrics into songs. Her ragged-and-torn voice has a subtlety of phrasing and pitch traditionally eschewed in punk if favor of blunt assault...
Armed with fact-filled binders, media savvy and a finely-tuned pitch, the group of six took a once-obscure issue—the impending loss of dance space—and made finding a new dance center one of the College’s top priorities...
...voice weaves through the rock-steady beat of his songs like a subtle horn line, shifting dynamics and tempo to suit the pitch-perfect delivery. Unexpectedly, Spear drops his unerring focus on the music and explodes “Talk to me people!” to which the audience readily responds...