Word: gillian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gillian Sorensen, U.N. Under Secretary-General, responded that A Vision of Hope was intended to be a commemorative volume and not a history of the U.N. As the 50th-anniversary celebrations roll on, the distinction Sorensen draws between history and self-congratulation is probably worth bearing in mind...
...Pitt has gained star status since his leading role as a wild-hearted rancher in Legends of the Fall, the country's No. 1 box-office hit for four weeks this winter. Ethereal beauties Ryder and Thurman earned Oscar nominations last week- Ryder for her role as Jo in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women and Thurman for her portrayal of a heroin-sniffing Mob wife in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Hawke has been winning rave reviews for his role as a charmingly scruffy, Auden-quoting romantic in Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore...
...Echoing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much at all. ``The standard of living has already collapsed by 50%, but the repressive apparatus remains efficient and loyal,'' she argues. For 36 years, dissident Cubans have calculated that their chances...
...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting in America's Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older...
These are old-fashioned virtues. Indeed, without Ryder the movies might have forgotten them. And that is why Hollywood has virtually ceded the 19th century to her. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, in The Age of Innocence and now in director Gillian Armstrong's stately, shimmering version of Little Women, Ryder must translate for a modern audience the purity and confusions of a time when a first kiss was the climax to an adventure and goodness was a goal worth fighting...