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...Classic Girl" gained a renewed pride and updated ode-like feel (even if it was serenaded to a sheer body-suited Amazonian goddess on a catwalk), with Navarro getting the lightly capering riffs just right. The dreamily pastoral "Summertime Rolls" responded particularly well to the limitless dynamics of the concert; Farrell tweaked nostalgic into near-wistful, letting that "me and my girl-friend" just hang...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New Addiction: Fumbling Toward Ecstasy | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

DIVORCING. GEENA DAVIS, 40, Amazonian Oscar winner; and RENNY HARLIN, 38, Finnish filmmaker who directed her in such flops as Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 8, 1997 | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...fine performances. One exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: OUTSIDE THE UMBRELLA | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...such as Quentin Tarantino and other fledgling director such as Guy Jacques, Agnes Merlet, Nora Jacobson Matthew Harrison and Filip Forgeau. Tarantino's neo-noir, soon-to-be-classics. "Reservoir Dogs" and "True Romance" are to be shown. And even more notable is the premiere of Mika Kaurismaki's Amazonian adventure of a film within a film, "Tigrero: A Film That was Never Made" and Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 cop drama, "Bob Le Flambeur." Themes which seem to be running through the selections for this year's extravaganza are the over-the-top violence of some modern film makers...

Author: By William Winborn, | Title: Workshop Welcomes The Wunderkinden | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...influx of fresh water might do it, by diluting the saltiness and density of the current, preventing it from sinking and heading back to the tropics. There is evidence that at just the time the Younger Dryas began, a huge North American lake (which no longer exists) began dumping Amazonian quantities of fresh water into the North Atlantic. The discharge stopped about 1,000 years later, as did the Younger Dryas. Broecker and Denton's model, says Penn State's Richard Alley, an expert on Greenland ice cores, "is probably the trigger for these abrupt changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ice Age Cometh? | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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