Word: anas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black, poor or foreign-born is not a privilege. If there is one thing McFadden should know about, it is to get it straight: While there is one person stigmatized and/or infected, all of us are at risk. And one more thing: I hope you're heard my silence. --Ana Lara...
...campus student Ana Lara was also elected co-chair during the meeting, which was held at the Adams Lower Common Room and was attended by about 100 students...
Canton is widely regarded as a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first place. But his twisting-in-the-Santa-Ana-winds demise didn't raise spirits at Sony. And he wasn't the only casualty. On Wednesday Variety confidently reported that Arnold Rifkin, worldwide head of motion pictures for the William Morris Agency, had been offered Canton's job. Many observers were surprised, as Rifkin lacks executive experience. But since joining William Morris nearly four years ago, he has done much to re-energize the agency's sleepy movie business, adding such...
...shines in the movie, drawing a convincing portrait of Ana as a sweet innocent, eager to please but determined to do her own thing. But the character and the movie, while quaint, avoid being cloying with funky, unusual twists. Ana is pleasant, but not a saint; she gets stressed over her difficulties with immigration and even occasionally gives up hope--a desperate situation in this optimistic film...
...real success of the film, however, is in the splendid details--the stereotype-crushingly vivid characterizations, the brilliant satire of modernism that is Celeste's "art," the poster of Maria Callas that Ana snatches from her wall before dashing off to France, the similarities in the many and varied wedding scenes. Altogether, "Celestial Clockwork" is a film that precisely and elegantly constructs a paradise before our eyes...