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...familiar, but Tharp wisely keeps it light and witty. The heart of the evening is a suite for the two stars set to Pergolesi -- dreamy, deeply musical, full of surprising yet harmonious moves. In a zippy finale, the stars cavort, and six fine young backup dancers finally get to strut some very flashy stuff...
...Animator Randy Cartwright faced a daunting one: to create a character, the Magic Carpet, literally out of whole cloth. The Carpet has no head, no voice, and mere tassels for hands and feet. Yet it has a personality that puts most live- action stars to shame. It can mope, strut, cringe. It is a gentleman and a matchmaker. It holds and kisses Jasmine's hand. It makes zigzag stairs of itself at the end of Aladdin's ride with Jasmine and, as she stands on her balcony, coaxes the lad up to kissing level with the princess. "He's very...
...sexual overtones of the second section do serve as a lead-in to the next, in which Graney explores women's roles as sex objects. No longer playful, the women now strut coolly about the stage in their tight velveteen dresses and red spike heels. The sexy entourage is periodically interrupted, however, by a woman who stumbles in her shoes, tugs at her dress, or collapses into a flailing tantrum. The women seem torn between the power of their sexual identity and the pain they must endure to maintain...
...probably distraught about giving up a run. Then they trounced Japan 8-2. One day later, to vary things a little, against an uncommonly strong U.S. team, they spotted the Americans five runs in the first inning and calmly breezed past, 9-6. Yet as they continued their imperturbable strut toward the first Olympic gold medal in the all-American pastime, the Cubans were carrying on their shoulders all the ambiguities of the Games. Were they an ideal embodiment of the Olympic spirit -- spurning cash to play for country -- or in fact its desecration, mere public relations puppets with which...
...Olympic basketball court as Michael Jordan spins, slides and flies by on his way to the hoop. The show put on by the U.S. team will be spectacular but one- sided. But that's what happens when one team can assemble the finest basketball talent ever to strut the Olympic floorboards...