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...pressures Kirkland faced as a ballerina, complicated by insecurities in her personal life, her path of self-destruction is not surprising. Supported by those who had a financial interest in seeing her perform, Kirkland survived on cocaine for three years, binging for days at a time, yet dancing to rave reviews. Only after six seizures and with the support of a new lover--now her husband and co-writer of the book, Greg Lawrence--was Kirkland able to overcome her addiction and temporarily leave the world of ballet...
...Byrne has the joy of a SoHo sophisticate discovering that there are other beguiling life-forms out there, and True Stories communicates that pleasure as ripely as any film made by New Yorkers in Texas since Bonnie and Clyde. A lip-sync contest, to the Talking Heads' bar-brawl rave-up Wild Wild Life, is awhirl with amateur energy. For 15 seconds or so each, a dozen locals -- Louis the Country Bachelor (John Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also a little girl, a fat woman, a Prince look-alike...
...dealers for the new model keep their showrooms several miles away from regular Honda outlets. The Acura Legend, a sedan slightly bigger and more powerful than the Mercedes-Benz 190, sells in the U.S. for $19,000, around $10,000 less than the Mercedes, and has % been greeted with rave notices by U.S. auto reviewers. The Legend's smaller, sportier cousin, the Integra, is priced...
...accident that the teachers of the Summer Dance Center receive such rave reviews from their students. Fanger attributes a 20 percent rise in enrollment this year to the excellence of her teaching staff. She says that while she "doesn't have anyone like Baryshnikov," she hires faculty members "for the quality of their teaching and the kind of work they're doing professionally...
...music major called the contest thehighlight of his cello career to date, adding thatit even surpassed his 1984 recital at CarnegieHall, for which he received rave reviews...