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Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller’s first cinematic love-baby, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is far from smooth-skinned and gurgling—beneath the stunning surface is a disturbing whirl of chaos and sorrow...
...once where much of the money went: the sets. Director Trevor Nunn (Cats, Sunset Boulevard) and designer William Dudley (The Breath of Life, The Coast of Utopia) use ultrasophisticated animated projections on three white semicircular screens. They create a cinematic labyrinth, where the screens spin and whirl, with intricate backdrops that cross-cut, dissolve and move with the characters. When a character is required to climb the stairs to the attic, she only has to walk on one spot while the 'house' sweeps down past her - and when she reaches the attic, one screen shows its cluttered interior, while...
Johnston has certainly seen change in her life, and she rolls with it. "Electricity was the most important thing that happened to us," she reflects. The computer was intimidating, but she gave it a whirl: "I worked that mouse." And she's ready for more. "You can get too old to enjoy life," she says, adding slyly, "I never got that...
...simply dazzled Harvard opponents, players and fans alike with his lightning-quick speed and seemingly-impossible receptions, not to mention his almost eerie ability to avoid being tackled. In the Holy Cross game, Edwards managed to turn an under-thrown pass from Fitzpatrick into a dizzying whirl of twice-beaten defenders. When a Crusader cornerback attempted to quell the Edwards insurrection, he ended up being carried off the field on a stretcher while the Harvard junior cruised to a 42-yard gain on the play. Fitzpatrick called the game Edwards’ “coming-out party...
Many Americans figure they will let the nutritionists hash all this out--and take all the time you please, thank you. In the meantime, as Saltzman discovered, there are pounds to drop and profits to crop. It seems as if everyone is giving the low-carb culture a whirl. Whoopi Goldberg does it. So do Jennifer Aniston and Bill Clinton. What's good enough for the stars is, of course, appealing to the rest of us. Some 26 million Americans are on a hard-core low-carb diet right now. And 70 million more limit their carb intake without formally...