Word: delilah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. VICTOR MATURE, 86, handsome actor known for his barrel chest--and roles in epics like Samson and Delilah and The Robe; in San Diego County, Calif. "Mr. Beautiful" got his big break in 1940, after a brief appearance in The Housekeeper's Daughter generated 20,000 fan letters. But he didn't take himself too seriously. "I'm no actor," he told a country club that rejected him because of his profession. "And I have 70 movies to prove...
...intriguing as such musings are, theories are made flesh outside of laboratories. A persuasive anecdotal demonstration is occurring in a spotless apartment on the struggling South Side of Madison, Wis., where a graduate student named Paul Cardis is revisiting a former insurance processor named Delilah Bell. Five years ago, Bell's fiance died of drug- and alcohol-related pneumonia, leaving her to raise their four children alone. To Bell, his death was worse than needless. It was a betrayal, and alternating bouts of anger and despair reduced her to a state close to paralysis. "I would talk to my mother...
When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...
...Stella, Bassett is a successful 40-year-old stockbroker who meets a hunky lad (Taye Diggs), barely half her age, on the Jamaica vacation she's taken with her pal Delilah (Goldberg). Is it love or just great sex? And how will Stella cope not only with the inevitable gibes from her family back home but with the quibbles in her own suspicious heart...
...postfeminists Camille Paglia and Katie Roiphe have tried to persuade us that a woman's power lies in her sexuality, Wurtzel wants to inform those perhaps unfamiliar with the basic tenets of the women's movement that it isn't always thus. From Delilah to Anne Sexton to '70s supermodel Gia, she reminds us, seductive, complicated women haven't had an easy time...