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DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...
Alfonso Caramazza; a psychology professor atDartmouth who is one of the foremost experts inthe understanding and production of language.Caramazza, 48, will be a full professor atHarvard...
Broadway was built on glitzy spectacle, and Gershwin is one of its foremost proponents. Unfortunately, the Boston Ballet is a little too far off-Broadway to handle the hyperbolic material of the Great White...
With the exception of "Who Cares?" and "Waterbaby Bagatelles," the "American Festivals" capture the forward-looking spirit of our country's foremost choreographers. The pieces bode well for the future of American dance, as well as for the Boston Ballet...
...this long-ago demise, although it is doubtful that any reader simply intent on finding out whodunit will still be turning these pages. The overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture that he seems to have invented anew: keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...