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...weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it was a maneuver he had completed perfectly only twice in practice. But he was trailing defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust of the U.S. and three others after the first round of jumps. Valenta needed something spectacular to win. Indeed, the five-twist jump he executed was spectacular. Also decisive. He took...
Person of the Week THE OSCAR FOR BEST HOBBIT IN A SUPPORTING ROLE GOES TO ...Peter Jackson's first third of the Lord of the Rings epic picks up 13 Oscar nominations, leading the pack this year. J.R.R. Tolkien, who died in 1973, likely didn't imagine this final twist in his novel's enduring and lucrative life...
...despite the merits and strengths of the performance, it is impossible not to miss the richness of the Italian Libretto. The production does offer a small taste of the original language in the duet in Act III between Susanna and Rosina, in which Rosina, in a wonderfully ironic twist, suggests writing a note to the Governor in Italian. The ensuing duet between the two superbly talented singers recalls the historical and emotional associations the original libretto is able to conjure. These qualities are what Salzmann defines in his Note on the Translation as ties “to a world...
...similarities to Shalaman’s script—Variety called it “the best unmade script in Hollywood”—but it also has a similar structure. Dragonfly slowly builds a supernatural mystery, injects moments of suspense and finally provides a twist ending. But everything that Dragonfly does, The Sixth Sense did better, although the former film does have several genuinely suspenseful moments...
Indeed, over the past eight months the new president has graced many a political column. But, in an odd twist for the Clinton appointee, Summers has found favor—and not disparagement—with columnists from the Right...