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...audiences since 1992, when she played the youngest of four loving sisters in the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque. She gave birth on a city bus in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, played a pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...
They can breathe easier now. In contrast to the more conservative gatekeepers at Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary, the editors at American Heritage practice a linguistic open-door policy. Give us your "shock jocks," your "scuzzbuckets," they say. Give us your "digerati" yearning to "multitask." "People look at the dictionary as a normalizing thing," says executive editor Joseph Pickett. "It helps to give the word codified status." Not all words, thankfully. Take "stalkerazzi," which gained currency after Lady Diana's death. The term was considered for the dictionary but couldn't produce convincing credentials. Maybe it lost...
...Real Australia," Robert Hughes wrote an erudite and insightful essay about his homeland [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Sept. 11]. We visited Sydney last year and came away feeling that Australians, besides being the most friendly and open folks you'll ever meet, share a special affinity with Americans. We want to dispel any notion floated by Hughes that Australians may not be the greatest people on earth, because our experience tells us that they very well may be. NACZ AND CATHE URBANSKI Pennington...
...OPEN ACCESS While both church and state have recently wavered on how to acknowledge same-sex partnerships, private industry has taken the lead. According to a recent Human Rights Campaign study, 25% more employers--including 46% more FORTUNE 500 companies--are offering health benefits to their employees' same-sex partners than did last year. Among the firms that have come out and expanded benefits in the past year are IBM, Coca-Cola and the Boeing...
...Margaret and Tom Ray bought and began restoring the property, which had been "remuddled," says Margaret, by a previous owner. "A leaking bathroom ceiling fell in on the very day we were to open. People thought we were going to start up either a brothel or a dynamite factory," she recalls...