Word: em
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...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
...help support a hungry family. But after capturing the A.A.U. title in 1934, he amazed the pros by winning 34 fights, earning some $500,000 and taking the championship from James J. Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...
Hyten challenges the "misconception that everyone in the military is the ultra-conservative, gung-ho, shoot 'em up type." A few are, he says, but many have liberal views...
According to Jackie Cooper, 58, Mickey Rooney "hasn't changed a bit" since the two co-starred in The Devil Is a Sissy back in 1936. Directing his fellow child star in the TV movie Leave 'Em Laughing, Cooper found that Rooney, 60, "still prepares for a scene by cracking people up on the set with funny, sometimes raunchy stories-right up to the moment I yelled 'Action!' " In the film, Rooney portrays the late Jack Thum, a Chicago clown who struggled to support the 37 homeless children he and his wife took in. The role...
Scanners looks like big bucks, but it doesn't seem much like The Brood. Cronenberg admitted recently that Scanners is not especially deep and should be interpreted as his "fun entertainment picture." Where his previous films boldly advanced the language and style of the standard "scare 'em" thriller, Scanners retreats to cliche...