Word: delilah
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...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...
...Burt Lancon, who were pairs silver medalists in the 1994 U.S. Open figure-skating championships, reimagine the Cavarettas' routine on a tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld cheer...