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Understandably disturbed by all of this, Anton cuts off his possessed part. Unfortunately, the liberated hand them sets out on its own to slay Anton's newly-found girlfriend (Jessica Alba) and rampage a school dance in the process. See, it all makes perfect sense...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hands-Down Fun | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Nothing like a beauty contest to get some national soul searching going. When two judges were suspended from the Miss Italy jury for saying DENNY MENDEZ, a Caribbean immigrant, could not represent Italian beauty, interest in the pageant got hotter than a curling iron. One judge, TV personality Alba Parietti, argued that "a black woman does not correspond to the canons of Italian beauty." Neither the jury nor the voting public agreed, and Mendez, who has been an Italian citizen for four years, won the crown. "I know I don't represent Italian beauty, but they elected me," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...program's most popular aria, Puccini's Nessun dorma, became a fight song not only for the World Cup competition but also for record buyers everywhere, who used it as an anthem to get them onto the freeway in the morning or ready to confront the boss. All'alba vincero (At dawn I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: They're Baaack! | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Finland defeated the United States 7-2 in the World Ice Hockey Championships in Alba di Canazei, Italy. The U.S. is 3-2-0 in preliminary round action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NBA PLAYOFFS | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

William Rhodes is unexciting but certainly decent as Diego Rivera. Accidental or not, he seems almost "White American," like the northerners he's so enamored of. "The offstage operatic duets sung by Karen Hale and Alba Quezada are stirring, although occasionally difficult to understand because of the melding of Spanish and English tones. Costume designers Ann Roth and Robert de Mora have created beautifully evocative costumes: magnificent Mexican native dress for Frida, Spanish scarves and shawls for village women and pastel pinks for the stodgy American wives...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Play Depicts Art as Life Source for Mexican Legend Frida Kahlo | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

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