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Since the czars of haute couture took over the swimsuit business, the world's girl watchers have zeroed in on the Diaper, the Thong, the String, the Monokini and now the Maillot. Unlike dryland, drawing-room fashion, which seeks to conceal and suggest, wisps for sun and surf can only show and tell. Therefore they are limited to a very few Gorgeous Girls who really have no need to advertise. En tout cas, as they say in Saint-Tropez, the GGs this summer can be seen supporting (barely) bikinis in stripes, or strapless, or black and white...
Deep into this long, mawkish film, the script calls for Susan Sarandon to tumble from a rowboat into a stormy sea off Greece. What she plunges into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...
Pacing outside Duino Castle near Trieste in early 1912, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke heard a voice above the Adriatic surf: "And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?" Rilke took this enigmatic question as the signal to begin his chef-d'oeuvre: a series of poems that would unite the visible order of things with the invisible universe of thought-to see the world as the angels might. He finished two elegies and fragments of several others before inspiration deserted him. Ten years and a world war later, it suddenly reappeared...
When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
Less resentful than Nicks, perhaps because she held the upper hand in the divorce proceedings, Christine McVie counters past traumas with an overriding hope for the future. Harmonizing with Buckingham on "Don't Stop," her crystalline voice insists, "Yesterday's gone; don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Buckingham's "surf's up" Los Angeles enthusiasm, along with a crisp guitar solo, steams the song to a tempestuous finale. But he spins a still more intricate pattern in "Go Your Own Way," as he weaves his voice with McVie's and Nicks' in rounds. Both the percussion and guitar begin softly...