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...DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE. Krzysztof Kieslowski's mood piece about two young women -- one Polish, the other Parisian -- is both emotionally opaque and theatrically radiant, for it showcases a beautiful star in the making, Irene Jacob. She won Cannes's Best Actress prize this year; may she illuminate movie screens for decades to come...
...whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...
...future will be darkened if we accept the loss of our radiant cities," Dinkins said...
Alyssa Smith of Schertz, Texas, is a radiant and mischievous three-year-old who smears her mommy's makeup and cheerfully taunts her older brother Ricky. Her parents, Teresa and John Smith, made medical history to give her the liveliness she enjoys...
Fast-forwarded or merely strict, the pace is a challenge to the dancers, particularly the ballerina who plays the heroine, Princess Aurora. She must appear to be a quicksilver sprite, but with only one intermission, the role is brutal. Of the five alternating ballerinas, the radiant Darci Kistler best maintained the illusion that she had just thought up these steps and was dancing them for the first time. Kyra Nichols stood out for the moral quality, essential in a fairy tale, that she brought to the part...