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Queen Elizabeth II, clad in full-length fur and trademark pillbox hat, landed at Moscow's airport for the first-ever Russian visit by a reigning British monarch. The trip, proposed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin during a recent stay at Buckingham Palace, was widely billed as a signal that cold war tensions between the two nations are over. While the Queen -- still, technically, Britain's head of state -- won't be penning any treaties or declarations, TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says the Pope-style stopover matters: "She doesn't say anything political, but the fact is, where...
...Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their works at any length because his interests focus on authors who came later. A line must be drawn somewhere, but leaving out the classical foundations of Western written culture may strike some as harsh...
...dramatist's death in 1616, flowered in the 18th century and has flourished largely unchecked ever since. If all Bloom has to say, as the 20th century winds down, is that Shakespeare is the best, the champ, numero uno, then the necessity of his doing so, at such length, seems dubious...
...presences in much of Jones' recent work. In a long solo piece called Last Night on Earth, Jones uses elements as varied as sign language and jittery body bends from break dancing to evoke the moods of a loving relationship. The piece ends with Jones, dressed in an apron-length white skirt, sitting, kneeling and finally lying on a shroudlike white cloth as he hoarsely and painfully intones the words of the old spiritual Nora's Dove...
...length, which accentuates not so much the stocking as the ample amount of thigh above it, did not spring spontaneously from Lauren's sketch pad. Its 19th century antecedent is the gartered stocking. In those times, for reasons that probably escape today's young generations, that fashion was considered disturbingly sexy (but then, so was the bustle). Nowadays, what % women seem to want is unhampered, ungartered, unmitigated eroticism a la Lolita. Underwear is already worn on the outside -- stuff that looks as if it comes from the lingerie department (and often does), and thigh-highs only complement the picture...