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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effectively uses these images, but it also creates a stylized, occasionally surrealistic atmosphere that carries the tango beyond its conventional setting. This highly theatrical effect is achieved by the creative talent of Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, three-time Oscar winner for best photography in films such as The Last Emperor. The music is a combination of traditional tango music by famous Argentine composers and several original pieces by Lalo Schifrin, known in this country for his re-working of the Mission Impossible theme for the 1996 film starring Tom Cruise...

Author: By Julie Rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dance With Me: It Takes Saura To Tango | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...leaves and a flower. Within it lies a smaller rectangle of delicate swirls, lines and curves so fine and perfect they must have been inspired by a higher power. And inside that rectangle, one finds another exquisite border of grapes and birds, framing the central focus of the painting, Emperor Akbar and Gosain Jadrup...

Author: By Patty Li, | Title: Meditating the Sackler | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...movie. Myworry is that she identifies too much withHatsumomo -- I think that tells us what we want toknow!" Though Madonna will not be making a cameoin the upcoming movie, the roster does include aJapanese dancer, the screenwriter of The JoyLuck Club and the costume designer of TheLast Emperor and Dangerous Liasions...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, | Title: THE BOOK: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...look like Clint Eastwood, the duster is not advisable. Though we all like to dress up--and the baby boomers especially, for they sprang from the costume party of the '60s--you must beware lest some kid in the crowd may be laughing and pointing, not at the emperor's nakedness, but at your Peterman outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times At J. Peterman | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Bill Clinton is in no hurry to clothe the emperor. The U.S. embargo on Cuba may be privately acknowledged as a cold war anachronism, but new measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Havana Shuffle | 1/5/1999 | See Source »

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