Word: harlequins
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Hardy and plentiful as they seem, frogs are actually very frail things, with a semipermeable skin that leaves them vulnerable to even the slightest hiccup in their environment. So when entire species of brightly colored harlequin frogs started dying off in the cloud forests of Central and South America about 25 years ago, scientists suspected that something in the amphibians' ecosystems--they weren't sure what--had gone awry...
Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...thiop included what Green explained in the program as “curtain raisers” which “were always included to round out a complete and diverse evening’s programme.” Well, Harlequin at the Ballet did indeed diversify the program, but these “curtain raisers” could have seemed a little random to the uninformed. In other words, this was a production where the program mattered...
...Lady from the Sea" has a plot that's high Harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free her from the cage of marital propriety - Nunn brought his patented clarity of emotional line within a vigorous visualization. And Richardson virtually channeled her mom: she had all the intensity, and nearly the magic, of Vanessa Redgrave in her early radiance. This show has closed, but there's plenty else to see in London, and when you get there you'll find cheap, cozy bed-sits for under $100 a night...
...reality series of the same name, which shows real women with real bodies how to dress with confidence. "Looking stylish is not about following fashion, losing weight, being rich or succumbing to the knife," they say. The book contains photographs of dos and don'ts (as in the harlequin number at left), punctuated by cheeky Briticisms. Divided into chapters with such labels as "Big Boobs," "Big Arms" and "Saddlebags," the book instructs readers how to clothe themselves successfully, without flashing figure faults. Any woman who has stood tortured before a department-store mirror will be grateful. --By Andrea Sachs