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...anachronistic movie: how, for example, do the Musketeers have high-speed "shootouts" with their circa 1625 pistols? Why does Queen Anne (Gabrielle Anwar), in a time when paleness signified aristocratic beauty, have such a golden tan? And no 17th-century lady would have bangs, or wear black eyeliner all around her eyes as does Rebecca De Mornay...

Author: By Katherine C. Raff, | Title: Three Musketeers. One Bad Movie. | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...Stanford, I hear, they do it differently. They just don't talk about it. Hiding their notebooks and problem sets under beach blankets, Stanfordians tan and surf and play all day long, making sure everyone else sees what a wonderful, effortless time they're having...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Culture of Stress | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

...instead, everyone's too busy to think straight. There's no reason to tan in the morning and slave away in the libraries at night. Our fate is predestined--we get to work...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Culture of Stress | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

Using well-known books to bolster her arguments, Chou cited both Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly as indicative of the widening gap between today's Asian-American writers and their parents...

Author: By David Eilenberg, | Title: Chou: Asian American Literature Shows Culture, Generation Difference | 11/3/1993 | See Source »

...brassy, tacky European womanhood. Gallimard's wife (Barbara Sukowa) spends most of her onscreen time wiping her runny nose and looking pasty. Annabel Leventon, as a European diplomat's wife with whom Gallimard has an "extra-extra-marital affair," gets similar treatment. Bleached blonde and sporting a leathery tan, she perches naked on a bed and smirks at Gallimard, "Come and get it." In case you don't get the point of all this, the script is there to help: early in the movie, we're shown Sukowa doing a garish imitation of a geisha girl fluttering a copy...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: M(oronic) Butterfly | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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