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Wannabe harlot Gardenia M. Orchardsby ’04 looked soooooo hot in that dress the other night—according to her online diary, which was religiously read by a small but devoted cadre of fans in 20 DeWolfe. Orchardsby’s devotees were crushed when she recently took the site down for unspecified reasons, but appreciated the shoutout on her away message when she complained that she “really wasn’t that interesting, despite the fact that everyone at this school seems to read my journal.” Don?...
More elaborate debutante balls can incorporate a competition into the festivities. Jauer was chosen to be the queen of the Gardenia and Musical Club during her first year of high school as well as Fiesta Teenage Queen 2000. For the Black and White Ball, which originated with the hope of improving Mexico-United States relations, she and the other debutantes were actually judged on their “performance.” Among other things, their execution of the elaborate curtsy was scrutinized...
...Others leave Lang’s silent period alone, but criticize his Hollywood noir films for being sexually perverted and unnecessarily violent. His noir films are violent, but they are not unnecessarily so. And in comparison to much of what is made today, they are sexually innocent. Spies, Blue Gardenia, Scarlet Street and Woman in the Window are some of his more famous films in this second period. All of his noir films, however, continue to elaborate on the theme of what can happen when technology overpowers our existence. Images of cameras, telephones, clocks and other such modern devices reveal...
...Others leave Lang’s silent period alone, but criticize his Hollywood noir films for being sexually perverted and unnecessarily violent. His noir films are violent, but they are not unnecessarily so. And in comparison to much of what is made today, they are sexually innocent. Spies, Blue Gardenia, Scarlet Street and Woman in the Window are some of his more famous films in this second period. All of his noir films, however, continue to elaborate on the theme of what can happen when technology overpowers our existence. Images of cameras, telephones, clocks and other such modern devices reveal...
Frank Sinatra's gardenia-laden casket was carried into Beverly Hills' Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday night for the vigil in advance of his funeral mass, scheduled for Wednesday, and burial later in a family plot near Palm Springs. The interment site at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City is where his mother, Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra, and father, Anthony Martin Sinatra, are buried. Sinatra was 82 when he died Thursday of heart failure...