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...feral escarpments of his face, with its "lovely low-relief episodes of muscle." If this is a novel in which people think and talk, it's a frisky one all the same. "I'm not terribly up on the actual sex lives of these artists," Updike admits, "except that they were sexy and they suffered from a lot of spare time." And as he does with many things, he manages to make the most of that...
...competition has only got brasher and more explosive, with plenty of pretenders to the throne--most recently, Vin Diesel's XXX, a postmodern grunge Bond who traded in his tux for tattoos. Says XXX director Rob Cohen: Bond "never learns anything ... He doesn't do much of anything except be titanium and eternally stuck in a time capsule...
...stylist in on the Concorde. "He was a Big Daddy figure," says Lois Chiles (Holly Goodhead in Moonraker). But the Mr. Nice Guy routine stopped at the office door. "You felt that he was on your side," says Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 films. "Except when it came to the money. Then he'd fight with your agent for every last penny...
Elizabeth Bergmann, director of Harvard’s dance programs, says that other than Rieman “there’s no adequate performance area for dance except the Loeb [Mainstage] which we don’t have access...
...team was very comfortable with the situation out there,” said Harvard coach Sue Caples. “It took a few minutes in the beginning, but then we dominated and possessed the ball. We did everything except put the ball...