Word: connors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 1993 Lisa finally told another English professor about the affair; encouraged by assistant ombudsman Gulbun O'Connor, Topol charged Woodfield with sexual harassment. A university ethics committee supported her allegation that Woodfield had abused his academic power. The embattled professor resigned last April, after admitting that he once slept with Topol and engaged in "unethical conduct," though he has denied the other details of their affair...
...program gradually began attracting better guests and a bigger following. Irish vocalist Sinead O'Connor was featured in a 1991 show, and progressive rockers R.E.M. appeared later that same year. Other A-list musicians--Sting, Eric Clapton, Arrested Development--soon followed. Older performers went on Unplugged to revive careers, younger rockers to boost new ones. When Pearl Jam paid a visit in 1992, it was largely unknown; its Unplugged appearance was an important milestone in the band's drive toward megastardom. Aging soulman Rod Stewart's acoustic set spawned an Unplugged album that sold 3 million copies. Coming full circle...
...confusions it could impose on you if you were young, fresh from an upcountry village and suddenly exposed to the subversive stimulations of Trinity College, Dublin, are the subject of the ingratiating, clearheaded, coming-of-age comedy that director Pat O'Connor and writer Andrew Davies have fashioned from Maeve Binchy's novel Circle of Friends. It revolves around three convent-educated girls: Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), cautiously quirky; Nan (Saffron Burrows), incautiously ambitious, whose effort to seduce her way into the Protestant gentry brings her to near tragedy; and, at the center of the circle, Benny, large, plain, smart...
Directed by Pat O'Connor...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...