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...duplicate - a cheap little triumph that he acknowledges by wheeling on one foot and raising his hand to his mouth. For 12 bars they do some snazzy vaudeville tap figures in synch and turn in toward each other. This is the moment when dancers would normally embrace and spin off together, but these two stop just short of touching. This tactic continues through most of the number: every time the music, or their steps, seem ready to force them into a clutch, or at least a collision, they stop short and back off. Facing close - his hands open to hold...
...hand on this legislation, it won't be Congress - it will be the voters. No politician wants to start off the election cycle with a "victory" over extremely expensive - and extremely popular - prescription drug benefit legislation. So if Republicans prevail with a slightly less costly plan, they?ll spin it as a triumph of responsible government over the whims of spendthrift Dems. And if the Dems are the big winners, we?ll get an earful about the victory of the people over tightwad Republicans...
...least 18 hours a week of police shows. That's more hours than Fox airs in prime time all week, and 6 1/2 more than last fall. This beefed-up squad will include a lot of cops you haven't seen before--except that, really, you have. CBS is spinning off CSI: Miami; ABC has a remake of Dragnet from producer Dick Wolf, who has essentially been remaking Dragnet for 12 years on Law & Order, itself the parent to two spin-offs and a reality court series debuting later this month. And many of their new brethren seem...
...STARTED A more personal--or is it more narcissistic?--spin-off of the logo mania that peaked in the late 1990s...
...euphoria is short-lived. After a savage military crackdown in which thousands of unarmed protesters are murdered, a dazed Khoo Thwe stands on the banks of the Irrawaddy River watching corpses spin past on the milk-chocolate currents. As the regime starts liquidating all remaining dissenters?his beloved Moe among them?what began as a lyrical coming-of-age tale becomes a dark and gripping story of survival. Pursued by government soldiers, Khoo Thwe and fellow students flee into the jungle to join ethnic insurgents on the Thai-Burma border, enduring both disease and terrifying assaults by the Burmese army...