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...body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
...starting to look amazing," wrote Marcus Featherston of Panama City, Florida, in a Usenet newsgroup called sci.astro.amateur. "I could see it through my car window!" And that was while Hyakutake was still brightening. When it reaches maximum intensity this week, the comet should be nearly as bright as Vega, one of the most luminous stars in the heavens. Astronomy clubs, colleges and planetariums have organized "star parties" for comet wannasees; World Wide Web users have created a dozen fact-packed Hyakutake sites, including NASA's Night of the Comet home page http://ccf.arc.nasa.gov/comet/)...
Because many bands originally announced were unavailable, the council has a list of new possibilities: Pharcyde, Samples, Ani Di Franco, Freddy Jones and Suzanne Vega...
...most exuberant and original American musical to come along this decade. Larson has updated La Boheme and set it among the artists, addicts, prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer who longs for one great song to leave behind...
Last year his turn as Vincent Vega, the menacing, ingratiating hit man in Pulp Fiction--linguistic philosopher, dancing man, heroin addict--earned him an Academy Award nomination. And the picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will...