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...that, in a nutshell, may explain the curious lack of joy last Thursday evening in the Palau Sant Jordi. The women's all-around should have been an energizing high for rapt spectators. The field of competitors was so deep with talent that on any given day, the gold medal could have hung deservedly on any one of eight necks from four countries. There was enough grace to satisfy balletomanes and enough difficulty to suggest that the laws of gravity ought to be rewritten. Yet there was little of the heartwarming drama that in Olympics past enabled audiences to lose...
...former schoolteacher with a taste for high fashion and a penchant for liking the wrong guy. On May 27, a jury in White Plains, N.Y., convicted the Columbia graduate of murdering the wife of her onetime paramour and co-worker Paul Solomon. This wasn't the first time a rapt audience had heard the steamy details of Warmus' affair with the sixth- grade teacher. The "fatal attraction" case went to trial last year but ended in a hung jury. Now the 28-year-old killer could face life in prison...
...does not mention the video that ran throughout the play. Nor does she mention the soundtrack. Nor does she mention that there was a six-foot long hand of God that spewed liquid although she took notes on it with rapt attention for a good quarter of the performance--all through the sequence where one cast member is naked (she doesn't) mention the nudity). Ms. S. doesn't like Artaud very much, although she obviously hasn't read the play...
Maybe the best army recruiting ad since John Wayne's farewell to his troops in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In explaining before a rapt press corps how the gulf war was won, the general embodied a nation's ideal of the perfect warrior: tough, professional, charismatic, compassionate. And gave a great lesson in military tactics in the process. Now if we could just figure out what...
Maybe the best army recruiting ad since John Wayne's farewell to his troops in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In explaining before a rapt press corps how the gulf war was won, the general embodied a nation's ideal of the perfect warrior: tough, professional, charismatic, compassionate. And gave a great lesson in military tactics in the process. Now if we could just figure out what...