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...experience. Envisioned as a tribute to the grimy heyday of grindhouse cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double feature B-movie extravaganza screens as two separate flicks: Rodriguez’s zombie spectacular “Planet Terror” and Tarantino’s slasher/souped-up car ride “Death Proof.”The two are even separated by a series of faux trailers contributed by the directors’ friends and fellow exploitation enthusiasts (“Hostel” director...
...bang when Deborah Y. Ho ’07 was launched over the heads of her fellow dancers. The highlight of the entire performance was, without a doubt, the guest appearance by Jam’nastics. This Cambridge-based youth dance company (ages 5-14) put on a spectacular display of both dance and gymnastics. These talented, young performers (some only waist-high) literally brought the audience to their feet with their smiles, exuberance, and acrobatics. The only thing cuter than seeing a bunch of smiling kids on stage was seeing them move better than most of us will ever...
...meantime, Yanukovych reforged himself via his huge business interests and with the help of American political spinmeisters who played up the shortcomings of the Orange Revolution. In the March 2006 parliamentary elections, Yanukovych made a spectacular comeback, his party carrying 32% of the vote. The predominantly Russian-speaking Ukrainian East, alarmed by Yushchenko's pro-Western politices and the Russian threat of steep fuel price hikes, threw its support...
...landed Hutton on the Apr. 24, 1950, cover of TIME. Back then she seemed on top of the world, and The Greatest Show on Earth was still to come. But soon she hit the Down button, and her stock fell as fast as it rose. The DeMille circus spectacular was her last major movie. She took a rodeo to Broadway (for three weeks), headlined the first big original musical for television (some considered it a fiasco) and in 1959 fronted a one-season sitcom (where her domineering attitude had other actors referring to her as Nero). Still...
What have 50 years of the E.U. and its precursors achieved? It's absolutely spectacular how we've stimulated the exchange of services, goods and capital, and even the free circulation of people. But in terms of cooperation, I'm still waiting. In 1993 I proposed reforms to strengthen cooperation and add value in areas under national control, like infrastructure for transportation, communication and information technologies. On that score, Europe has not evolved as I'd hoped...