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...much happens during these 70 sweetly silly minutes: pratfalls and swan dives, break dancers accosted, a girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...
...presumably, its leader). Asked at a press conference the next day whether he believed Gorbachev was sincere in trying to remake the Soviet Union into a less threatening country, Ronald Reagan replied, "Yes, I do." Coming from the longtime and unabashed cold warrior, in the midst of his own swan song, those three words were almost as significant as Gorbachev's hour-long oration...
...away there lies a lake where the great birds go in winter. Then, at the first hint of spring, they fly off in giant Vs that stretch across the Swan Sky (Philomel; $13.95). One season a female becomes too weak to travel. Her family is torn between staying with her and obeying the magnetic force that pulls them northward. With striking woodcuts in black, white and pervasive blue, Tejima, a Japanese artist, explains the cycle of the seasons and the migration of birds, which, like humans, carry on an unspoken dialogue with the changing face of nature...
Life in the bars may sound rowdy, but the hotels are even worse. "Every year two or three people try to take a swan dive off the fifth or sixth floor balcony into the pool below. Unfortunately most miss," says Sergeant Jim G. Ferrel of the Ft. Lauderdale police department...
Harvard over RPI, mini-game: Harvard takes the first game easily, but falls asleep in the second listening to daddy Addesa's swan song. Crimson wakes up and wins mini-game...