Word: theda
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Sturges' mother was a much-married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim...
...article in yesterday's Crimson incorrectly described the nature of Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol's tenure battle with the University. The case was settled through an internal grievance process with no legal action...