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...more. A family returning from Maine took a tip from a driver who called himself Thermidor and lucked into an exceptional lobster restaurant. Some of the CB messages are unembarrassedly commercial. A group of CB-assisted hookers plies one of the main highway approaches to Los Angeles ("This is Tender Love. I've got Lady Jane here ready for a pit stop...
...legendary ballerina from A.B.T.'s early days, Alicia Alonso, the founder and director of the National Ballet of Cuba. Now 53, Alonso provided more emotional than aesthetic delight by dancing the adagio from the second act of Swan Lake. It was a strained performance but also a tender portrayal of the Swan Queen, and the audience gave her nearly 20 minutes of cheers and bravas. For those in search of novelty, there was a first look at a potentially exciting new partnership. Gelsey Kirkland was dancing, for the first time ever, in a showy pas de deux from...
...exhibition, which opens this week in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is provocative but tantalizingly incomplete. The Hermitage has, for instance, 23 Rembrandts, and Hammer & Co. managed to extract just two, painted some 20 years apart. One is a tender portrait of Rembrandt's young bride Saskia, resting her hand on her presumptively pregnant belly; the other is a magnificent, hauntingly evocative biblical work painted when intimations of mortality obsessed the artist. There is a marvelous Chardin that Catherine herself commissioned to depict the "Attributes of the Arts." There is an exquisite early Gainsborough that looks...
...place for it to rest, we had to park it, guard it, stroke it, hide it from the public." A special makeup man in scuba gear would plunge into the ocean to add more blood to Bruce's teeth and gums or administer a touch-up to his tender plastic tissue. Bruce's skin tended to discolor and deteriorate in the salt water...
...inability of the White House and Capitol Hill to come up with such a policy, or of the Democratic-controlled Congress to draft any sustainable energy program of its own. So long as that deadlock continues, the U.S. will apparently be left to OPEC's none-too-tender mercies...