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During the past five years, tens of thousands of new jobs were created in Boston; apparently most have gone to engineers, lawyers, computer technicians, managers and other upwardly mobile residents. The same sleek "gentry" have taken apartments and houses in once declasse areas, displacing poor and working-class Bostonians. In Jamaica Plain, one of the city's most integrated neighborhoods (53% white, 25% Hispanic), the influx of moneyed young professionals since 1979 has quintupled the price of some houses and pushed up rents as much as 70%. M.I.T. Urban Studies Assistant Professor Yohel Camayd-Freixas claims that more than...
Patrice Donnelly, 32, is a professional athlete who displayed her acting ability and an intense sexuality in Personal Best. Her director, Robert Towne, says that Donnelly received mail from both men and women. "Patrice has the sleek active body I find beautiful," says Towne. "Her grace matches any ballerina's." Donnelly runs two to four miles three times a week and lifts weights three times a week for three-hour sessions. The results show: her 5-ft. 8½-in., 127-lb. frame has only 8% body fat (a woman of average size carries about 20%). "Men have always loved...
...durable out of the mayhem: a metaphorical bridge between old and new Japan, between the integrity of the samurai and the ingenuity of the technocrat. The warlord's fortress is an executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around to watch the end of this compact Armageddon...
...silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford's victimized flatfoot. Because of this imbalance of star roles, and because this drastically recut movie has a plot that proceeds by fits and stops, Blade Runner is likely to disappoint moviegoers hoping for sleek thrills and derring-do. But as a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers. The pleasures of texture have rarely been so savory. -By Richard Corliss
...with Four Chamber Works, a winner, even though it has a rough start. Musically, Septet is a droning harangue, and Robbins' setting looks like a Balanchine copybook. The most ambitious sequence is a pas de trois for three very strong dancers, Merrill Ashley, Sean Lavery and Mel Tomlinson. Sleek, vigorous, boldly plastic, it is a kind of message to portentous choreographers like Glen Tetley and Choo San Goh that in their lengthy constructs one might discover a really good six-minute ballet...