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...luck allowed him to escape starvation, but ballet school during the Cultural Revolution was not all tutus and toe shoes. Beloved teachers cleaned toilets; students spent their summers toiling alongside farmers or factory workers; and more class time was devoted to the study of political movements than to dance movements. At Madame Mao's insistence, kung fu kicks and death stares were introduced to mincing ballet routines. "The dancing looked all right," she once observed during a visit to the school, "but where are the guns? Where are the grenades...
...latest opportunity for the uninitiated to dip a toe into the Morrissey universe arrived last week, when he released his first album in seven years, the (moderately) optimistic You Are the Quarry. But Morrissey knows that it will probably be the same group of hard-core wallowers crowding the register at record stores. That doesn't bother him much, in part because being Mr. Misery is a pretty good gig. (Quarry will probably enter in the Top 10, and his most recent solo tour sold out in--no joke--5 min.) He also knows he has done plenty to earn...
With summer just weeks away, women are prepping their feet for open-toe season. But this year foot care may cost you an arm and a leg. "The foot is the new face," says Dr. Suzanne Levine, owner of the Institute Beaute, where she gives clients foot facials. The $225 treatment includes a mineral-oil-and-Epsom-salt scrub, glycolic-acid peel, intensive tissue-repair cream (applied with an ultrasound wand) and callus-blasting microdermabrasion. Savvy strutters whose feet are sore from their Manolos are hobbling to doctors to get the balls of their feet injected with collagen, Restylane...
Lopez's marketers hope her target audience views her ambition and business smarts as the height of modern-day glamour. "In fashion, having momentum and timing is everything," says Denise Seegal, CEO of Sweetface Fashion. "We take our cues from our consumer, and they want J.Lo from head to toe." This is a radical departure from days of old, when poster girls may have always been ferociously ambitious, but it never showed...
...biochemists--make up the fastest-growing segment of the temporary work force and account for as much as a third of the business of large temp firms. That's helped lift temp agencies, which tend to do well in a recovering economy, as companies use them to dip a toe into the hiring pool. Since April 2003, the temporary-services industry has gained 212,000 jobs, accounting for nearly one-third the total growth in payroll numbers...