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...movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft...
...World War II until 1979, there was an American embassy in Taipei in recognition of Taiwan as a sovereign state. What changed in 1979 was only Washington's policy recognizing the government in Beijing. The authority and sovereignty of Taiwan's government didn't change a bit. Colman Bernath Taipei...
DIED. SIGNE HASSO, 91, Swedish-born stage and film star of the '40s and '50s, best known for her role in George Cukor's A Double Life, in which she played the wife of an actor (Ronald Colman) obsessed with his role as Othello; in Los Angeles...
...bank of monitors showing operations all over the world and being a "telementor" for the less-experienced surgeons. "When a pilot wants to learn how to fly a 747, he doesn't just climb into the cockpit and watch the other pilot and eventually take control," says Bill Colman, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, who has developed a simple simulation for knee-replacement surgery that is used in teaching. "They get to try their hand in a simulator and develop their skills slowly...
...blown womanhood. As such, it is a very adult meditation on love. The title borrows a line from the Song of Solomon that Reichl discovered in her confirmation Bible: "Comfort me with apples, for I am lovesick." The book luxuriates in her adulterous affair with her New West boss, Colman Andrews, who once greeted Reichl at an airport not with flowers but with fraises des bois flown in from France. "He kissed me and said, 'Close your eyes and open your mouth,'" Reichl writes. "I sniffed the air; it smelled like a cross between violets and berries, with just...