Word: demy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Into this demi-monde blunders Theodore Faron, Professor of History at Merton College, Oxford and cousin to the enigmatic Xan. A revolutionary cell, outraged by the injustices perpetrated by the Warden, approaches Faron to ask him to use his influence with his cousin. His mission comes to naught, but he falls gushingly in love with a soft-spoken revolutionary, and vows to help her change the world...
...administered consciously by a ferocious associate, unconsciously by a fearsome opponent. The former is Lieut. Commander Joanne Galloway (a marvelously intense Demi Moore, acting as if she's never read Vanity Fair, let alone appeared on its cover). Instinctively sensing that a cover-up is in the making, she keeps hectoring Kaffee toward heroism. The antagonist is Colonel Nathan R. Jessep, Marine commander at Gitmo, not so much played as demonized by Jack Nicholson -- a wickedly smart psychopath, utterly self-confident and self-righteous. Nicholson sees the humor in this dark character but then freezes each potential laugh with...
...Eliot House residents betrayed their pampered past and aristocratic heritage last week when they "went kind of berserk" (according to one protest organizer) and threw a tantrum over the removal of paper items in their dining hall. Like latter day courtiers in 17th century France, the Eliotees banged demi-tasses of dining services-grade coffee and demanded their paraffin...
...Relief TV shows to aid the homeless. Spend time with her, and you see that the raunchiness isn't part of her act; it's part of her nature. Clowning between takes with a photographer, she improvises a gross-out commercial, drip-drip-drip, for adult diapers. Ghost star Demi Moore reports that things got cheerfully vulgar during the shooting of that film. "She'd say, 'It's coming, I feel it coming,' and then let out a belch. It was so great. She just kept us laughing...
Creating a shrewd editorial mix of celebrity profiles, newsy features and provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...