Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when its residents were interned, has been retaken by the Japanese, and is again a main gathering spot for 175,000 Japanese-Americans scattered around the county. A brand new, $12.6 million cultural complex provides reminders of home: a lush, still garden of camphor and golden-rain trees, a sleek theater for Japanese-language productions, a brick plaza for a snack of age tofu (deep-fried soybean curd) and a stroll...
...have not danced together regularly since 1976, when Sibley retired after a knee operation. The couple that first breathed life into the Ashton classic The Dream (1964) and danced together in 18 other ballets won renown as one of the most poignant and refined in dance history: a sleek, sensuous welding of two bodies into a single winged entity. In 1980, at Ashton's urging, Sibley made her comeback at a charity gala in London: "Get up there and dance," commanded Sir Frederick...
...price of prestige plunged last week. Faced with sluggish sales, the U.S. distributor for Britain's Rolls-Royce Motors, makers of the world's most elegant line of automobiles, slashed prices on all Rolls models. The cost of a sleek Silver Spirit, the cheapest Rolls, dropped from $111,000 to $93,000, while the price for a top-of-the-line Corniche convertible fell from...
...Captain steers his sleek black '83 Cadillac into the neighborhood known as Alphabet Town on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd the blighted 15-by four-block "town" 24 hours a day, dispensing cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, angel dust and an array of other drugs. The Captain, in his 40s, is a white, affluent tradesman from Brooklyn. He got his nickname because he once owned a yacht. He and his girlfriend, a pink...
...occupy the south. But The Outsiders' sensibility is operatic enough to make the film into another West Side Story. From its first frames, when Stevie Wonder croons a pop ballad over images of suburban sunsets, Coppola sets the tone of poetic realism, Hollywood style. The greasers, with their sleek muscles and androgynous faces, display a leonine athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony over sunsets, quote great swatches...