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...Victor flirt and argue wildly back and forth. Audrey is a demanding character: a pouty, overly cute teenager who in fact is a talented artist with real substance. We rarely find this risky combination of adolescent coquetry and artistic depth, but Salie succeeds in merging the two. Victor is sweet, but has a quick tongue; Lucano plays the role of the older man with charm, not smarm...
...portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world to me, and when you first see Cathy Moriarty here, she's wearing the upswept hairdo from Raging Bull." In the audience's mind -- which blends past and present, actress and character -- Moriarty can walk...
...method was exactly right because it got credibility within the world it was attacking. This book reminds me of the woman detective who wired herself and won her sexual- harassment case. Those guys taught her how to wire herself, and she did, and she caught them. It's a sweet victory, to win using their methods...
...conference, which ran for 11 hours, began with a lecture from Sarah Igo '91-'92, co-founder of Lighthouse. Igo spoke on the popular paperback series on teenage girls and their problems, called Sweet Valley High...
...Western world had survived nearly two millenniums of intermittent repression and persecution. Italy was among the last countries of Europe to eliminate the ghetto, when Rome was liberated and the Papal States were abolished in 1870. Yet during the next 60 or so years, life for Italian Jews was sweet indeed. Anti-Semitism was of little moment in a country where they were such a tiny minority -- 47,000 in a population of 45 million, as of 1910 -- that most Italians had never even met a Jew. Barriers to their material and social success, to assimilation and intermarriage, were...