Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dark-eyed sex kitten Valerie Kaprisky plays the teenage vamp out for the blood of musclebound gigelo-pimp Romain (played by French hearthrob Bernard Giraudeau). The premise, not a plot but a torturously enacted idea for one, is a humourous example of self-conscious Freudiana: at the beginning of the film, Chris saves an eight-year-old boy from the deadly clutches of a field of jellyfish--read vagina--and in the end pushes superstud Giraudeau into the deadly metaphor...
British politicians have been gearing up for the campaign for weeks. Conservatives and Alliance leaders have put final touches on their national platforms. In the House of Commons, Speaker Bernard Weatherill wryly appealed for "less euphoria." Eager Labor officials, out of office for eight years, announced a new campaign slogan: "The country's crying out for change." Unfortunately for both Labor and the Alliance, opinion polls do not substantiate the sentiment...
...merely the latest example of man playing man, exploiting nature as he always has. "A dairy cow was not put on this earth to produce milk for humans," Wagner says. "It was put here to make more cows. We just adapted them to our needs." Harvard Microbiologist Bernard Davis agrees. "Genetic engineering in animals is simply an extension of domestication," he says. "Of all the technologies that man has developed, domestication probably has the best record of enormous benefits to human beings and no hazards...
...chair, stumbles into a fireplace screen with a jangling crash, whirls around to recover his balance, ensnares and dances with a grandfather clock, then ends by flinging himself into another chair and reclining silkily with a look of nothing having happened. The bare stage direction exists in George Bernard Shaw's text, but the moment -- and the + character judgment it reflects -- is in large part O'Toole's contribution to his literally smashing, if belated, Broadway debut at age 54, after nearly three decades of international fame and seven Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia...
Shapiro, who has Canadian and U.S. dualcitizenship, attended McGill College and aftergraduating in 1956 ran a Chinese restaurant withhis twin brother Bernard, who later received adegree from Harvard's Graduate School ofEducation...