Word: actress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School of Continuing Education called "The Creative Edge." Organized by Richard Brown, an assistant professor of humanities, the program uses both film and live interviews to explore the creative process of six great artists: writers Arthur Miller and Tom Wolfe, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, actress Helen Hayes and photographer Yousuf Karsh. "We saw this as a special opportunity," says Anne Janas, our manager of public affairs. "These are all people at the top of their fields and people TIME has written about throughout their careers...
...similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias in New York City, then Los Angeles and Chicago. Said one school official: "It was overreaction and silliness carried to the point...
...cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus Line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line," the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training in her life? I am more concerned with the artistic merit of the cast and I definitely take more offense to a non-dancer in a dance musical rather than an all-Asian cast...
Davidson, a talented actress and singer, brings to the role of Susanna a playful, crafty and subtle sexuality Although not an overly powerful soprano, the beauty of Davidson's tone as well as her careful musical phrasing was more than able to compensate for her occasional lack of projection Susanna's most memorable aria, coming late in the fourth act ("Giunse alfin il momento che godro senza affanno"--"At last the moment is near when carefree I shall exult") was quite beautiful and an exercise in difficult stage acting as well. Nelman's Figaro was an equally dashing figure with...
During the last month of former President Ronald W. Reagan's term, Mother Jones introduced its sharp, glossy, "new look," complete with a photograph of actress Susan Sarandon on the cover. The new and improved magazine includes columns such as "OUT OF POCKET, about how to buy and invest with your ethics intact," and "TRIPS, a guide to travel and adventure for non-Ugly Americans...