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...allure of foreign-language films was twofold: they had class and they had sex. Ritzy Manhattan soirees were spiced with debates about what was real and what fantasy in Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad or Fellini's 8 1/2, about Antonioni's seductive use of existential ennui. And when foreign films didn't tax the brain, they stirred the loins. In pouty Brigitte Bardot, in statuesque peasant Sophia Loren, in the knowing rapture of Jeanne Moreau, Americans saw ideals of glamour more complex than Jayne Mansfield. Even Bergman gave you bosoms along with the angst. These films were invitations...
...Service Employees Union’s complaints are twofold: first, it says some workers could lose their jobs in the transition, and, second, it suggests that one of the companies that could pick up a contract, ABC Maintenance, is not unionized...
...secret of Horowitz's appeal is twofold. His phenomenal technique, regarded by piano connoisseurs as the most dazzling since Franz Liszt set the standard of virtuosity in the mid-19th century, gets the listeners into the tent. Horowitz could always do anything he wanted at the keyboard, whether pounding out octaves or rippling off scales in thirds. But mere technique is not enough. Just as Luciano Pavarotti's high notes, in the tenor's prime several years ago, were backed up by a gorgeous liquid tone and a supple sense of phrasing, so Horowitz's pianism offers many subtleties...
Well, if one side has a national security strategy (mistaken though it may be), and the other side says nothing but “me too,” who is going to win? The correct argument was twofold: one, Bush has actually made the country less strong (on homeland security, and on the fight against al Qaeda); and two, here is what Democrats will do to better protect our people in a dangerous world...
Dems President Gregory M. Schmidt ’06, who read excerpts from the play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” said the group’s objectives were twofold...