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...Dancer." You might start with the face: its cartoon-hero smoothness, with that possibly synthetic Pepsodent smile, is mocked by the crescent of a scar on his left cheek (childhood bike accident). But you?d soon notice his form-fitting couture: the sleeves of a tight white sweater rolled up to expose Popeye forearms or, in the dream sequence of "An American in Paris," the nowhere-to-hide body suit in which he assumes the impossible poses of Toulouse-Lautrec?s Chocolat character. Like so many middle-class guys, he was an athlete and a salesman. His work...
...shows, but they have also taken up the mantle of traditional parenting that white sitcoms have shed. For years, TV's white parents have been crass (Roseanne), dumb (The Simpsons), even abusive (Titus). On My Wife and Bernie Mac, black dads don Ward Cleaver's authority-figure sweater. Wayans' grouchy suburban dad Michael Kyle is firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black...
...that Michael Leavitt's name is on his office door. There were no National Guardsmen in the building, no Secret Service, no bomb-sniffing dogs, none of the things that had made speed skating so exciting. In fact, Leavitt, who was wearing a really nice Christmas sweater, has himself been walking through lots of magnetometers at events - including curling, of which he is a big fan. "I find it really interesting," he said. "We went with the cabinet and had a chance to compete. We had such a good time, we went again. We even thought about forming a team...
Widow Shah Jan sits in an icy room with mud walls in a snowfield on the edge of Kabul. She wipes her tears with the edge of her grimy sweater as she recalls the day in August 1999 when the Taliban set fire to her home in the vineyards of the Shomali Plain and kidnapped her best friend, Nafiza. "The Taliban burst in with their guns and torches," says Shah Jan. "None of us even had time to put on our veils...
...Nobody out here believes it, but I have always preferred Boston to California,” he said. “Having said that, it’s been ten years since I’ve had to buy a sweater...