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...Marines, always proud of their mud-and-blood traditions, will soon be tooling around in swank, new Mercedes-Benz sport-utes. The World War II-designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle small enough to fit into helicopters. Most of the 62 vehicles have been sent to bases in California and North Carolina, and the final dozen will be delivered to Marines in Okinawa in time for Christmas...
...lonely girls dazzled by the notion of a sweet, sympathetic man. This true-life Nebraska fable--M. Butterfly mixed with In Cold Blood--proved that love is blind and hate is too. Boys Don't Cry, a fiction film, underlines the awkwardness of cowgirl courtship as Brandon (Hilary Swank) and best friend Lana (Chloe Sevigny) probe for each other's guilty secrets. But the movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass. This time, art can't measure up to real life, love and death...
...court papers, chairman Anthony Bruno of Bergen Commercial, a larger financial institution in the same area, began phoning him at New Era. Bruno said he had heard good things about Sisler. He eventually asked the young man to become Bergen's vice president of credit-card operations--a swank job for anyone, let alone a 25-year-old college dropout. He would make $70,000 a year and have use of a company car. Sisler said...
...wants her young beau to be a gentleman at table and a beast in bed; often she stares at him as if he were under glass or in a cage. The movie asks, What would you pay for great sex? Your self-esteem? Not the great Huppert. This swank, thoughtful film gives full rein to that rare actress who, as tears stain her cheeks, can radiate a heroic insolence toward the man she love-hates...
Although Montreal is best known for its exuberant summer festivals, Montrealers keep their merry spirits warm all winter long in swank, trendy hibernation dens. These carefully-crafted indoor burrows include the underground city that connects many of the modern centreville buildings, museums and galleries displaying contemporary Canadian and Quebecois art, sex clubs and paraphernalia supermarkets that line the city's main commercial streets and thousands of cafes, bars and restaurants. St. Lawrence Boulevard, and the quartier that surrounds it, is where the bustle and intensity of the city is best felt. In fact, this important street is the dividing line...