Word: bianca
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...their mothers - were stigmatized. Not any more, says Grazia Francolini, a director of corporate strategy for TNT Italy, who lives in San Donato, near Milan. At age 36, her mother had married and given birth to four children. At 37, Francolini herself had her first child, a daughter named Bianca, and was unmarried - the father was her divorcé boyfriend, Andrea Brusoni. He already had a 12-year-old son by his first marriage. "I believe in the family but I don't think it's the marriage that says the family is steady," says Francolini. "We are children...
...life," by which he means everything that is not work related or stressful. On bulletin boards inside the factory, magazine shots and vintage photos used as inspiration for the current collection consistently depict "the life"?Enjoyment with a capital E, whether it's Camelot, Farrah Fawcett, Bianca Jagger or a photo by Horst. The emphasis everywhere is always on a sense of freedom, ease and enjoyment...
...servant and wife, yet she is so embittered by the abuse of her husband Iago, that her decision to betray her mistress (with whom she also spars to comic effect) can be interpreted as a desperate attempt to find acceptance and emotional warmth. The play even manages to give Bianca (Julia C.W. Chan ’05), more dimension than that of an innocent whore; here, she is painted a desperate idealist, capable of more passion than her one-dimensional exterior amiability in the original work would have initially indicated...
...Desdemona, McLeod expresses the character’s loneliness and vivacity with a fitting sense of aristocratic entitlement. But it is Bianca who really makes an impression. Despite little stage time, Chan steals the spotlight and brings depth to Bianca by simultaneously expressing her exterior confidence and inner vulnerability, with more plausibility than the range of emotions attributed to such a flimsy character would initially suggest. Resnick also succeeds in channeling Emilia’s bitterness and repression, although, consequently, her character pales in comparison to the dynamism of the other two women. The most engaging moments, however, come when...
...constant in action, breathing life into the play’s dialogue-propelled plot. The direction also stages the action to subtly imply its context of the character’s social conditions; a privileged Desdemona constantly lounges while the household-supporting wife Emilia toils away and Bianca freely enters and exits as a woman of her own will and self-defined pleasure...