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...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
...Myra B. Ramos, associate dean for educational planning at the Med school, says the program was increase in the rate of medical knowledge. It was becoming increasingly difficult to memorize all the information necessary...
Plenty of would-be stars spend years angling for -- and just missing -- a national television appearance. For Myra Kristine Palmer, a near-miss with TV fame came very early in life. In fact, she had just been born...
...happened at the Covenant Birthing Center in Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics...
...Former Cabot House Master and Director of the Office for the Arts MYRA A. MAYMAN, describing an artistic display of picnic tables in the Radcliffe Quad...