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...reflects on the injustices endured by Native Americans. "I haven't felt like this since I was with Stella Adler in New York," says Kinnear--all actor, all self-absorption--when he finally acknowledges his attraction to Betty. Their feelings may be stunted, but in their way they are pure, even heartfelt...
Sport at its highest level is a pure rush to the edge of human capability. How often do we get to watch mankind at its absolute best? We hear a composer's symphony or see the scar from a brilliant surgeon's operation, but we seldom see these men and women at the moment of supreme achievement. Sport provides one of the rare theaters where these moments can be glimpsed, and the Olympics are its gaudiest stage, where more records are set and broken than at any other athletic event in the world. By watching athletes like Marion Jones, Michael...
...most unexpected nomination of the MTV Video Music Awards highlights dancing's renewed prominence. Alanis Morissette's clip So Pure, which the singer directed, is up for Best Choreography in a Video (Robinson and Henson are also nominated; Landon twice). Morissette took ballet, jazz and tap-dance lessons as a child. "Now I only tap-dance if I'm waiting in airports," she says, laughing. In So Pure she shows off her skills. The video, choreographed by Kevin O'Day and Anne White, features Morissette dancing through the decades--at a '50s sock hop, at a '90s rave. She taps...
...storm coverage "have definitely reconsolidated" the state's fraying Democratic base. Nelson, with his TV-anchorman looks, is also aided by the impeachment-trial image of the owlish McCollum lecturing like a high school teacher about lust. "I'm a moderate Democrat vs. an arch-conservative Republican," says Nelson. "Pure and simple...
...generals. Surely they have discussed the killing that is under way. What should you do now? Suddenly the moral instinct alone does not answer. You are on your own, trying to find a direction in a world in which there are no marked paths. You are sitting across from pure evil. What...