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...first craft to cross the finish line was a sleek double kayak from Dunster House. Its speed, accomplished by a mundane design, precluded the entry from winning any appearance awards...
Light, whimsical, diverting on the surface, this sleek recreation by François Truffaut is deceptively sweet-like a fondant filled with vitriol. The gorgeous kid of the title is Camille Bliss (BernadetteLafont), another of the coyly annihilating heroines who have haunted Truffaut's work since the incomparable Jules and Jim (1961). These women tease men, taunt them, stalk them, until, as in The Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and as here, the men are so enmeshed in their own obsession that they become grateful, impassioned prisoners...
...promise of Siberia is still largely promise, however. The vast land is far from tamed. Although sleek new Yak 40 minijets now dart from city to city and the Trans-Siberian Railroad provides a 6,000-mile spinal column from Moscow to the Pacific, riverboats and horse-drawn sleds still provide the lifelines from one wooden village to the next. In many places bears are more plentiful than people, and hunters frequently have to eject them from the food-stocked little huts that are established as survival stations...
...January, the Quaker/Tiger made its annual hunt into the Cambridge Jungle and, as predicted, it returned sleek and well-fed after fattening up on two triumphs at Harvard's expense. On the sinister evenings of January 5 and 6 Princeton edged out the Harvard cagers, 71-70, with a convincing display of discipline and cautions basketball, and Penn completed what has come to be a "traditional" sweep of the weekend back-to-back encounters...
...people often celebrate right back. From Russia to North Africa (two of the troupe's more recent tour stops for the State Department), from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, Ailey's young, radiantly sleek troupe packs them in night after night. It is the hottest modern dance company in the U.S. today, and one of the most popular ever...