Word: deborah
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When Principal Deborah Bevan started school this past September at Craneville Elementary in Dalton, Mass., there was a peculiar topic of conversation circulating in the teachers lounge: Peanut butter. Or, more specifically...
...FAMOUS HAWAIIAN-beach kiss with co-star Burt Lancaster in the wartime drama From Here to Eternity introduced sex appeal, however tame it may seem by contemporary standards, to 1950s moviegoers. Previously cast for roles that accentuated her genteel English demeanor, Deborah Kerr gave a sultry performance that earned her a spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated...
...easy to obtain a gun, according to the study. Half of those carrying a gun were involved in gangs, the study found. The report did indicate some improvement in student outlook, as more students reported feeling safe while commuting to school and when in their own neighborhoods, said Deborah R. Azrael ’83, the associate director of the youth violence center at Harvard. She said students also are more likely to trust the police. The data were released to the community yesterday in Dorchester at the first of a series of meetings led by the Boston Public Health...
...sense of breeding. Often they came to Hollywood from English theater and films, but to many American viewers they seemed visitors from a higher realm. Their names still say "class": Vivien Leigh, Wendy Hiller, Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom. Of course, in a class by herself, Audrey Hepburn. And Deborah Kerr, whose grounded grace illuminated some of the best relics from the 40s and 50s, and who died Tuesday...
...Born in Scotland in 1921, the daughter of an architect who rose to Captain (and was wounded) in World War I, Deborah Jane Kerr Trimmer was a shy child who communicated through family theatricals. She studied dance and won a scholarship to the Sadler's Wells school, making her London debut in the corps de ballet of Prometheus...