Word: trainings
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...Anjelika Krylova, 24, and Oleg Ovsiannikov, 28, can help it. The younger Russian pair train with the coach that Grishuk and Platov used to have. Despite their relatively brief partnership, they have already won the Russian ice-dancing title and collected two silver medals at the world championships. This week they hope to glide ahead of the favorites. So fierce is the rivalry that at last month's European championships in Milan, the two pairs engaged in a game of intimidation during the warm-ups, whipping by each other so closely that costumes were torn by flashing skate blades...
...police," begins Martin Amis' novel Night Train (Harmony; 175 pages; $20). "I am a police and my name is Detective Mike Hoolihan. And I am a woman, also." And with that satisfying jolt, we're off, as Amis once again bombards, delights, excites and irritates the reader with his hard-edged writing and warped spirit. Paying homage to the American tough-guy novelists of yore--Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler--Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness. The experiment does not always work, but this little book never gets boring...
...Zhivago (1965). Julie Christie, and lots and lots of snow. True Romance (1993). A CP favorite; check out Gary Oldman as the pimp. Witness (1985). Kelly McGillis. The bathing scene. Gun Crazy (1950). Lovers on the lam; a cult classic. Brief Encounter (1945). Strangers on a train platform. A very British romance. Summertime (1955). David Lean. Katharine Hepburn. Venice. Casablanca (1942). Speaks for itself. Breathless (1959). The Godard original, please. Almost makes you want to be French. Betty Blue (1986). French too; a very very sexy movie. An Affair to Remember (1957). Okay, ladies, it's your day. But come...
Cannon's verdict, as his title suggests, ultimately finds the LAPD and the judicial system guilty of negligence (as, for example, in failing to train officers adequately in ways to subdue an out-of-control suspect) and of a certain institutional incompetence in administering justice. A multidimensional Rashomon, of course, adds up to something out of chaos theory. Cannon has integrated both the facts and the myths into a work of superbly professional journalism...
...neighborhood, we don't think the Postal Service is so efficient. We joke that the mail still arrives by burro. Not long ago, it took one of my letters 10 days to go half a mile. Maybe mule train would be better. CINDY BELLINGER Pecos...