Word: previewers
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They were a coterie representing 50 million disabled Americans who were invited by the U.S. Park Service to preview the sprawling monument for Franklin Roosevelt to be dedicated May 2. The monument spreads out grandly on 7.5 acres along Washington's Tidal Basin, great blocks of ocher South Dakota granite carved with the soaring phrases of F.D.R.'s that brought this nation through economic collapse...
...elaborate disguises (they give the film a lift and an edge) and pumping up the romance. "The truth is that we made a different film from the one Paramount financed," Kilmer says, "and they went along with it." They also paid for a new ending, shot in January, after preview groups nixed a death scene for Shue's character...
First, scratch off James Woods: his is the only film in all the categories I haven't seen, but his latex-heavy scenery chewing in the flop movie's preview is way too over-the-top, even for Oscar. Mueller-Stahl, a prickly character actor who deserves more recognition, has too little to do as the terrorizing father in Shine, especially considering that he played the same character in Music Box and The House of the Spirits. That means a head-to-head between Gooding, whose bebop-ebonic hijinks were a riot in Maguire, and Norton, whose hat trick...
Adriana Suarez is quite possibly one of the greatest things ever to happen to the Boston Ballet. Her dignified elegance shone in "Glazounov Classique," the preview selection to last spring's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She sparkled as the soloist in "Passage," the world-premiere conclusion to this fall's "Boogie, Brass and Blue." And now, once again, she combines beauty and strength with fiery fervor on the stage of the Wang Center, this time as the lead role in "Carmen...
...only one third of an exhibit that tries to emphasize the scientific qualities of Leonardo," says Otto Letski, director of the cultural exchange for the exhibit, during a press preview...