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...spare, experimental works (including The One Hundreds, which begins with two dancers performing 100 different moves of precisely 11 seconds each and ends with 100 people doing all of them at the same time). But she also choreographed pieces to the music of Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton. When she was working on Deuce Coupe for the Joffrey Ballet, some company members refused to perform it. "They were classical artists and had their own definitions about what art needed to be," she says...
...movie is vividly atmospheric and fun from a musical perspective (especially if you, like Jett, love rock 'n' roll), but it can't escape the conventional clutches of the biopic formula. "Girls don't play electric guitar," a patronizing instructor tells Jett (Kristen Stewart, nicely punked out) in an early scene; she responds by plugging in, screeching out some notes and swearing at him. It's a bit of a letdown, an easy shorthand to explain the motivations driving Jett and her bandmates. The Runaways themselves may have been fresh and exciting, but with this scene, the movie tells...
Will the notoriously hard-charging Sarkozy roll back his reformist drive in the wake of the electoral shellacking? Maybe a bit - especially after his quixotic insistence that the conservatives could win the second round even after the disastrous results of the first round on March 14. Rather than tweak the right's message, Sarkozy focused on a get-out-the-vote push to urge conservatives to go to the polls, a move that helped to slightly increase voter turnout but failed to prevent the left's landslide win. Now Sarkozy may have to accept a change of tactics. Says...
Still, many investors and analysts are eyeing Icahn's move closely. Some wonder if his move into the sector is a sign to start putting investment chips back on the table and roll the dice on companies with big exposure to the U.S. gaming market. "[Carl Icahn] has always been a very astute investor," concurs Clyde Barrow, a casino expert and professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. "There's a lot of upside potential, and if you're investing for the long term, now is the time to buy." (See pictures of hard times in Las Vegas...
...Start-up Nation Twenty miles south of Austin, in a nondescript industrial park, sits a bland, corrugated-metal building with a roll-up door. Inside the building sits the future of the U.S. economy...