Word: ellen
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...MARRIED. ELLEN BARKIN, 46, Emmy-winning actress, and RONALD PERELMAN, 57, billionaire Revlon chairman; in New York City...
...Lesbian Center, which achieved a brief moment of fame two years ago after conservative senators tried to use its more prurient components to block Hormel's nomination to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Alongside the racy books that so flustered Jesse Helms are such bland fare as Love, Ellen, Betty Degeneres's heartwarming tribute to her lesbian daughter, or the newest biography of k.d. lang. Academic tomes about lesbian and gay studies nestle alongside gay personal finance books and travel guides. The selection spans the Dewey Decimal System, with books selected not for their specific subject matter, their intellectual approach...
...actor was virtually born one: great-nephew of actress Ellen Terry and second cousin of designer Gordon Craig. By 21, in Chekhov and Coward, he was a London fixture. He directed and starred in the renowned 1935 Romeo and Juliet (the cast included Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Evans and Alec Guinness), advancing Olivier's career by swapping roles (Romeo and Mercutio) in mid-run. Later he championed bold young playwrights, directing Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, starring in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice and Edward Bond's Bingo...
However you do on the test, experts advise that you spend time with children in various settings and get into the classroom, as a volunteer or an aide, meeting the kind of children you are likely to teach. Ellen Schechter, assistant commissioner of education in New Jersey, suggests you ask a school principal or superintendent if you can shadow a teacher for a couple of days, taking part in the life of the classroom. Linda Andryc, 44, a former Wall Street portfolio manager who is working toward her master's degree in education at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville...
Good pictures get to the point. It's great pictures that don't. Sometimes they have no point to get to. They don't try to simplify matters but to complicate them, to add nuance upon nuance and keep all judgments suspended. In the Mary Ellen Mark show that opened this month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there are dozens of good pictures. There are some great pictures...