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...film's essential episode, the disappearance of the petulant Anna (Lea Massari), occurs within the first hour. A luxury yacht's cargo of listless passengers disembarks on a rocky, semi-deserted island. Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she cries "shark" in pretend. This act of immature attention-getting sets the scene of her disappearance, which will ultimately become the only certainty in the film, in a context of folly and childish insignificance...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Antonioni's Stark View Reinterpretted | 10/20/1994 | See Source »

...upset-minded Harvard women's tennis team came up just short this weekend at the Intercollegiate Tennis coaches Association Eastern Regional Team Championships, losing, 4-0, in the semi-finals to eventual tournament champion William and Mary...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: W. Tennis Falters, Loses to Tribe, 4-0 | 10/18/1994 | See Source »

Harvard's route to the semi-finals of the weekend tournament, which was held at the University of Pennsylvania, went through Virginia Commonwealth in the first round and George Washington in the second round...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: W. Tennis Falters, Loses to Tribe, 4-0 | 10/18/1994 | See Source »

Since they are "semi-sovereign independent" nations, tribes can operate casinos even if gambling remains illegal in the rest of the state...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Losing Moral Ground on Gambling | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...Gray Sexton successful in overcoming all of these obstacles when her mother seemed so ill-equipped to cope? The author allowed herself to confront, accept and forgive the sins of her past. The abuse. The violent household. The instability. The codependence. Through therapy, through semi-autobiographical novels (Gray Sexton has authored four) and through dealing with her mother's work as her executor, she has been able to move forward. These memoirs are the final leg in Gray Sexton's long emotional journey. Street is an indulgence she must allow herself. Anne Sexton had her poetry and her therapy...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: SEXTON ON SEXTON | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

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