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...touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...
...Head--Boston's annual rite of fall...
...Cambridge, Mass., the Stride Rite company is building an "intergenerational center" near its headquarters to provide day care for up to 60 children and 30 elderly relatives of its employees. Stride Rite chairman Arnold Hiatt believes the center, scheduled to open in 1991, will have advantages over facilities that cater strictly to children or the elderly. Since the two groups will share some activities, both are expected to get more out of the experience...
...then works a full eight-hour day. In Oak Brook, Ill., computer workers at the Official Airline Guides publishing firm can cluster their hours, and work from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule last December when her father was hospitalized, coming in late some days and leaving early on others. Says she: "My boss said, 'Don't even ask.' He understood...
...Dead Ringers also tilts out of coherence, with scenes that are dramatically stillborn. But Irons is splendid in both roles, and Cronenberg can create tour-de-force tableaux with his effortless black magic. In one, Bev strides into surgery dressed in red, like a demon priest at a sacrificial rite. The victim is woman; her crime is woman's unique advantage over man, the power to produce perfect new bodies from the most vulnerable part of her own. Any mad scientist, any man, can try either to serve that power or to destroy it. And Bev must finally love...