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| June 27-July 3, 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eye Care: Among Asian teenage girls, eyelid surgery has become as common as braces, rising like a rite of passage into womanhood. Todd Inoue follows the path of the scalpel to confront the question: Is the desire to emulate European faces about freedom of expression or an abhorrent form of ethnic erasure?
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| Striking Back: Prosecutors feel slighted at the state Supreme Court's decision giving judges discretionary power in sentencing third strikers, but the potential backlash from the right promises to pack a wallop. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Eye: Political windbags, party-poopers and tomatoes on the roof of City Hall. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Polis Report: Curiously strong evidence about the fate of mint tins. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts & Entertainment |
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| A Boom of One's Own: From pop artists to jittery professionals, the dangerous lure of fireworks lingers long after the Fourth of July--plus a guide to holiday light shows, concerts and parades. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Movies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Tango in Tuscany: Bernardo Bertolucci takes a working vacation in Stealing Beauty. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Familial Frost: Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil freeze out their feelings in André Téchiné's Ma Saison Préférée. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Gothic Disneyland: Yet another serial-killer romance in Butterfly Kiss. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sucking Out the Feeling: Superdrag powers past pop into the modern world. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Musical Country: San Francisco's American Festival proved that symphony audiences will turn out for modern classical. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Three-Year Blues Plan: Robert Stewart puts jazz In the Gutta. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Street: Those aren't the roadies; they're the Cardigans. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Audiofile: The latest CDs by Chico O'Farrill & His Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Key Kool & Rhettmatic, and Iguana Jive. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Art | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Visual Voices: A new exhibit at the Triton embraces disparate visions. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stage | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Horse Sense: The sexual and the sacred take off at a gallop in Equus at TheatreWorks. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Persian Pleasures: Andrew Pham samples Sunnyvale's Chelokababi, a family-run establishment making an impressive case for Persian cuisine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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