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...seems fragile here, it is the flighty Suns. Despite the massive presence of Barkley, they had to slip past their opponents in the play-offs as if through cracks in half-closed doors. The Bulls, by contrast, triumphed over their opponents, including the revitalized New York Knicks, with the sleek solidity of returning champions. Which only shows, perhaps, that the various constellations on both teams are perfectly aligned with their central stars. Suns and Bulls: the names alone tell us that for the next two weeks we will be witnessing a heavenly conjunction of earth...
Masako evidently agreed. In 1986 she entered the law department of the University of Tokyo to study for the Foreign Ministry entrance exam. The stocky teenager was becoming sleek and turning heads in a division that is only about 5% female. She passed the stiff exam after just one year -- most people require two years of study, and only 5.3% succeeded in 1986, Owada's year. Even now, Tokyo professionals can be heard to say, "She did what a man can't do," and then hurriedly correct themselves...
...decline all interviews, including one for this story. His music associates, meanwhile, want Roger to get cracking on the record: since the deal was signed, he has spent thousands of dollars flying five of his oldest friends out to visit him in Los Angeles. He has also bought a sleek Dodge Stealth, in which he was stopped for speeding on Christmas Day. Yes, his brother beat him to the cover of Rolling Stone, and his mother beat him to the cover of the Daily Racing Form, a newspaper about his other passion, horse racing. But he appears to believe...
Pearl herself is being pursued by a mysteriously persistent suitor (Marcello Mastroianni) -- a sleek Italian rooster fluttering a hysterical Jewish hen house. She's wary, attracted, distracted all at once. What's worse, she's supposed to be endearingly eccentric. So is everyone else in a film that some idiot in the quote ads is sure to call heartwarming. Mind-numbing is more like it. What this bunch needs is a team of psychiatric social workers...
...United Nations Protection Force, we make our way from the besieged to the besiegers. We pass through the lines, through checkpoints and no-man's-lands, to the headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients not out of murderous fantasies but deeper into them. After...