Word: clare
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...into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against...
Picture yourself as a famous, no-nonsense Congresswoman, married to the man who founded TIME magazine. Somebody gives you a small tab of paper, you happily lick it and you're gone. That's what happened in 1960 when CLARE BOOTHE LUCE--playwright, socialite, anticommunist and wife of Henry Luce--turned on, tuned in and dropped LSD with her husband. Luce's handwritten acid diaries were made public this month, 10 years after her death, as stipulated in her will. Among her Jim Morrisonesque musings: "Capture green bug for future reference," "Feel all true paths to glory lead...
...Cosmo left Bloomington to go to Cambridge University in the U.K. as a research fellow at Clare College, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the description of nomads written in the second century...
BOOKS . . . RAGE FOR FAME: THE ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself...
Schoyer, Harvard's leading returner in assists, will head the midfield, backed by sophomores Laura Dahmen, Sarah Davis and Clare Parker, the latter of whom will be out for two weeks with an injury...