Word: italians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the free samples from Dunkin' Donuts and Ben & Jerry's weren't enough to satisfy, crew fans were treated to a variety of foods, from Italian sausages to fried dough to clam chowder...
...Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba) who takes refuge in increasingly wild fantasies of life as a ballerina. Contact, the finale, shows what happens when a despondent advertising man (Boyd Gaines) botches a suicide attempt, wanders into a swing-dancing joint...
...novel in 1953), Lolita remains a brilliant book, a wonderland of language and longing, with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club. Deal...
...areas). It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it uses to maximum effect. This mix can shock us into seeing the present in the past, as when Isaacs crosscuts modern Italian hipsters and preening Renaissance Florentines. The conventional re-enactments, however, are like a forced march to colonial Williamsburg...
...Sean: Aramark doesn't let us ask the players for autographs. I met Cal Ripken briefly. He was sitting with his family and he bought Italian ice for all of them. And I also met Matt Damon when he was in the celebrity hitting challenge. He was horrible. I said, "Better luck next round...