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STAR TREATMENT Leggings moved further along the fashion food chain when celebs like Jessica Alba made the look their...
...Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father can. And many do. Men are scared of other people's pain," he writes. Veltroni...
...Beyond Ms. Hilton, I extend the roster of potential exceptions to Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Aniston, Fiona Apple, Ashanti - in fact, to save some time, just continue alphabetically with celebrity females until Catherine Zeta-Jones...
Although none appear in the play, men dominate “The House of Bernarda Alba.”Presented as a joint venture by the Undergraduate Council, the Ann Radcliffe Trust, and the Office for the Arts with producer Kim Chen ’08 and director Mary E. Birnbaum ’07, this story of a proud widow who attempts to keep her household from shame by oppressing her five rebellious daughters suggests sexual frustration and a deep disillusionment with men. These themes collide forcefully with the claustrophobia of small-town life in Spain at the turn...
...Bernarda Alba” is, in fact, a “social experiment,” according to Birnbaum, asking what would happen were men to disappear. Set in rural Spain, the cloistered home of matron Bernarda Alba, played by Alexandra C. Palma ’08, is rife with internal female conflict and external societal tensions. The cast, which is comprised of nine female actors, includes Ellen C. Quigley ’07 as Poncia, a servant, and Olga I. Zhulina ’09, as the fiery youngest daughter Adela...