Word: fernanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Didn't CELINE DION realize that a modern accessory like the pimp hat doesn't really work with the classic double-breasted, white-silk suit worn backward? 5 Could this pleasant-looking woman be the same FERNANDA MONTENEGRO who two days after the Academy Awards said Gwyneth Paltrow bagged her Oscar only because she is "thin, pure and virginal" and Life Is Beautiful "didn't deserve...
DiMaio discussed a book called Princesa written by Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque and Mariozio Janelli about a Brazilian transvestite who was an immigrant prostitute in Italy...
...main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two set out across the Brazilian vastness to find the boy's errant father. Theirs is an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting...
...Fernanda Gallego, 24, who is head of Youth Development, one of the many nonpartisan civic groups sprouting up on every university campus these days, exemplifies the new, no-nonsense mind-set. "Every time I hear public officials shout about defending our national sovereignty, I shake my head," she says, "because I know that their corruption and mistakes have compromised my country's sovereignty as much as any gringo...
Italian officials insist they do not intend to go the way of France and Germany, but many of them are worried because the country is host to about 800,000 legal and at least 300,000 illegal foreign workers, even as unemployment heads toward 10%. Says Social Affairs Minister Fernanda Contri: "We need to work on the idea of a certain number of foreigners allowed in, a fixed number each year." To guard against a return of the Albanian boat people who were sent back two years ago, the Italian navy is patrolling the Adriatic. The powerful opposition group...