Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...updating the script, Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
...also survived by his daughter, Barbara Bazyn of Chelses, lows, and his son, Robert Hatfield of Florence, Italy...
Surpising market watchers, Apple Computer Inc. announced today that, despite higher sales, it will likely lose money in the current quarter. "It is a sign that the personal computer market is getting more fiercely competitive," says business writer Barbara Rudolph. "Apple is not about to go bankrupt, the Macintosh is still very popular, but it is an indication that they might have to start cutting costs and selling more computers. Also, Apple has a history of management problems, which could have hurt profits. In the past, Apple's dilemma was an inadequate supply of computers, now it's competition from...
...movie, written by Leigh's mother Barbara Turner and directed by Ulu Grosbard, is a two-hander about the edgy relationship of show-biz sibs. Georgia (Mare Winningham) sings pop; she's famous and sensible, a caring mom and sister. Sadie (Leigh) sings barroom rock and thinks the way to be Janis Joplin is to do drugs, embarrass herself onstage and lurch toward an early, ugly death. At the mike, in the van, at the airport, she goes self-destructively, picturesquely nuts...
Elisa's life became an excruciating alternation of happiness and horror. The four-year-old took the Friends School's screening examination and passed. But according to Montessori teacher Barbara Simmons, she also began telling people that her mother had locked her in a closet. On one occasion she volunteered, "Awilda hits me. I don't want to go to Awilda." Montessori principal Bryce says she reported suspected abuse to both the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Services and a child-abuse hot line--the CWA's second warning about Elisa. In response, Bryce has said, child-welfare workers made several...