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...every aspect of court life. Only the audiences vary. Makeup and masks are only the exterior manifestations of the guile that these lords and ladies use to disguise their intentions. "Dangerous Liaisons," however, contents itself with skimming along the surface of social encounters where poisoned barbs are cushioned in silken words. "Ridicule" actually takes us behind the scenes. Gregoire is a quick thinker, with an aptitude for making perfect verbal ripostes, but he lacks finesse. Luckily, a sympathetic doctor agrees to sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works...
There's Haley Barbour scripting things. The soothing, silken song he sings: "It seems as clear as heck to me We need a Houstonectomy." Rejecting Mack, the Rust Belt Four, McCain, Dole picked Jack Kemp, a man who shares your pain...
...women's Eight should be No. 1 in Gainesville, Georgia. Canadian heroine Silken Laumann, who won the bronze in Barcelona only weeks after a terrible rowing accident, is back in the single sculls...
...safari housing: On the safari, we lived in a tent. It was supposed to be a tent, but it was a mahogany tent with silken mosquito netting. Like Eliot in tent form...
...Poussin, the real contained the ideal. He did not generalize like an academic classicist. His paintings are full of precisely observed detail -- pebbles and flowers, plants and springs of water. The atmosphere in which forms are bathed is real, whether it's the blue silken light of spring in the Roman campagna or the thick darkness that envelops a landscape when a storm gathers and lightning strikes. (The dramatic mystery of Poussin's foul-weather scenes carries you back to Giorgione's Tempesta.) The architecture of his backgrounds evokes a perfect antiquity, embedded in Nature but not disfigured by Time...