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...dismay, that cannibals have decided to make him the main course at their banquet). It's also that Jack is, in truth, a modernist, unaccountably displaced to the 17th century and obliged to undertake the mindless heroics not only of an antique movie genre but also of the spirit of an age when all are heedlessly charging into action, swords slicing the air, instead of more sensibly retreating to their studies to think things over when danger threatens. Jack is an anachronism, engaging in a lot of desperate improvisations to keep his skin intact...
...there were a fashion equivalent to the handsome player, it would be Cristobal Balenciaga, above, the great Spanish couturier who shaped fashion from 1937, when he opened his Paris atelier, until 1968, when he abruptly closed it. The designer's rigorous spirit has always hovered over runways, but thanks to "Balenciaga Paris," a sweeping retrospective of his work that just opened at Paris' Musée de la Mode et du Textile, his influence is once again in midfield...
Balenciaga closed down his ateliers just as the student riots revved up in Paris. His reason was simple: he couldn't keep up with the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s. Like great athletes, the great designers know when they have played their best...
...describing the South Americans as "animals." Ramsey, it might be said, did not merely want victory: he wanted his men to demonstrate that they were better people as well. Here and there around the international sporting arena, however disguised by graft, intrigue and cupidity, something of this elemental spirit precariously survives...
...agree. When promoting agents to senior-executive levels, he "is trying to extract some promise as to how long they are willing to stay," says Michael Mason, who runs the administrative side of the FBI. Grassley suggested to TIME that "the FBI needs to appeal to the patriotic spirit of its senior managers." But beyond that, the bureau is offering few tangible perks to make working there more attractive. Nor will the jobs be getting easier--Mason says new recruits should expect to be rotated around the country and the world, even if it means uprooting their families, a practice...