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Screenwriter-Director Leon Marr (adapting a novel by Joan Barfoot) is a neat freak with images. Every shot is composed precisely enough to win Edna's approval. The cool, creepy, witty splendor of this Canadian psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat...
...sartorial splendor counts for anything in Supreme Court decisions, Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's next case before the High Court is a sure winner. Much to the disbelief of The Dersh, Boston Magazine placed the flamboyant barrister on its best dressed list. "The Harvard law prof's wardrobe is beginning to show the influence of the Newport crowd he hung around with while proving that Claus [Von Bulow] wasn't a louse," wrote the editors of the monthly...
...find out a lot by going in for one of the free trial sessions offered by the salons. Body Bronze will let you lie in brightly lit splendor for 15 minutes, and Tanorama will give you eight, just so you can see if you like it. And, much as you may resist, you probably will...
...deaths, has been celebrated in print and on film, in poetry and song. But last week what had been legendary suddenly became real. As they viewed videotapes and photographs of the sunken leviathan, millions of people around the world could sense her mass, her eerie quiet and the ruined splendor of a lost...
...splendor of the pageantry, however, the ceremony never lost a sense of down-home majesty, best caught perhaps by the four tiny bridesmaids dressed like floral sylphs and the four small pages clad in naval costumes. The eldest, Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, 8, did a game job of managing both his troops and the bride's train, but the show stealer was Prince William, 4. During the 45-minute ceremony, he played on the cord of his hat like a fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted...