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Anyone lucky enough to sail the open seas aboard one knows that Swans are the cream of the crop. Nautor's Swan, the renowned Finnish boatbuilder that was infused with a bit of fashion-world glitz when Leonardo Ferragamo (Salvatore's son) acquired the company in 1998, recently introduced the newest model in the SwanLine, the Club Swan 42, above. Created in partnership with the venerable New York Yacht Club, the yacht is the first in a new one-design class and is intended to level the playing field in racing with strict equipment regulations...
...vigilant, if bored, audience member might distinguish as a decidedly attractive male student and an esteemed female Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat at the first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared appearance of a dog’s ear—from the lap-held purse of the same esteemed...
...tone of pastiche is even more obvious in the songs. Gould's farewell number, "Drift Away," recalls the elegiac mood of "Sail Away," the Noel Coward standard. "Will You?", the pretty ballad that closes the first act, takes its tonic cue from the 1936 Brown and Freed "Would You" that was introduced in San Francisco and reprised in Singin' in the Rain. The first few bars, and the whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary...
...conditions that are not typical,” junior Kyle Kovacs said. “We typically sail in flat water, typically an un-shifty breeze. This was pretty much the antithesis of all that...
Movies used to sail on charm. Gorgeous stars would purr their smooth patter, smile their way out of embarrassing entanglements and seal their conquest of a co-star--and a worldwide audience--with a kiss. Today that sounds So Old, but it was the standard for a half-century. Once in a while a director makes a movie that tries to recapture that warm feeling. It's harder than it looks, as a couple of new films prove...