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...uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
...grades and gushing recommendations, could surely prosper here. But what more, they wonder, would she bring to this cozy all-women's college in South Hadley, Mass.? Giulietta Aquino, Susan's advocate on the six-member committee, ticks off a few of her accomplishments. She is a decorated horseback rider aiming for the Olympics who commutes three hours a day between her home, school and horse barn but still finds time to tutor immigrant children and work as a physician's scribe...
...Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1967 crime film, aptly titled Le Samourai, Kitano walks slowly, stares blankly; he might be a patient whose life the surgeons have saved by removing his soul. Like Clint Eastwood in his early surly days (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Pale Rider), Kitano is implacable, dispensing retribution that may also be justice, but only coincidentally. He is a Zen or zombie Clint?a Dirty Harakiri...
...life supporters in Congress were successful in reinstating the gag rule by attaching it to the foreign appropriations bill. It was the first time Congress acted to make such restrictions law, not simply a ruling issued by the Executive Branch. Congress attached the bill as a rider to legislation authorizing payment of U.N. arrears. Much to the delight of anti-abortion activists, Clinton felt compelled to accept it. Just last October, the Clinton administration lifted the gag rule, which affects approximately 430 organizations in more than 50 nations. But in a tight presidential campaign with Senate Republicans hoping Bush would...
...customizers, back in 1963. But if there's one custom job you'd expect to see in a show about the growth of a California ethos but don't get a hint of, it's the kind of long-forked, stripped-down Harley chopper that starred in Easy Rider 35 years...