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...from luxuriating in l'art pour l'art, the women "understand their responsibility as artists neutrally and farsightedly as a political duty of enlightenment," says curator Eleonora De Saavedra. So the sordid or brutal realities the painters pick as their themes are never depicted too vividly or destructively: "The language of the paintings is not one of violence or debate," explains Saavedra. "It's color, light, a trace, a document of the hand [that made it], of the soul, of the individual...
...Eleonora Porcu at the University of Bologna both say recent technical advances have boosted success rates to the same level as embryo freezing, which is about 20%. In Porcu's most recent studies, 70% to 80% of the eggs survived the defrosting process without breaking down. Kim puts the current frozen-egg birth rate at 21%, based on a recently completed study in which 6 out of 28 women in South Korea became pregnant and later gave birth. One even had twins...
...Consider the 1947 Miss Italy contest. Among the also-rans: Silvana Mangano, a sensation with her hiked-up skirt and dirty dancing in "Bitter Rice," and Eleonora Rossi Drago, the keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses...
More than 40 years ago, when Eleonora Duse was making her long faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. “If you don’t know Billings and Stover,” said the notice, “this will introduce them.” But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps...
...hero PANCHO VILLA made a deadly raid on Columbus, N.M., and a U.S. military force was sent to track him down, to no avail. Seven years later, Villa was killed by Mexican assassins outside his ranch. TIME noted the death in an issue with a cover story on actress Eleonora Duse...