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Behind this face is a restless, ambitious spirit. She is not content with being merely a model, only an actress; she demands a kind of Renaissance celebrity. Isabella Rossellini, for example, could have decided to coast through gossip pages as the gorgeous daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian Film Master Roberto Rossellini. Instead she has become a journalist, a television performer, a film actress and, on a whim, one of the fashion world's most sought-after models. Joanna Pacula rose quickly through the disciplines of theater, film and TV acting in her native Poland; now she has the female...
...first lecture, entitled "Listening," Welty described the awakening of her literary sensibilities through listening to gossip. Wednesday, in her lecture "Learning to See," Welty discussed how she began to see things and try to capture them in her short stories. And in her final lecture yesterday Welty read from several of her short stories, explaining the persons within each tale...
...will undoubtedly manage both the People press corps and a flock of undergraduate humor editors with her customary photogenic aplomb. More pity is due Princeton and its otherwise august members of the admissions committee, who, in brushing up against the models and show biz and high-speed, high-paying gossip, have come away with the definite smudge of cheap newsprint on their lapels...
...keeping with this philosophy, Davies' book delights shamelessly in the unnecessary--in gossip and cheap sex (that is, $25 for Parlabane if he'll spend a day in a nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word on the Humanities perhaps belongs to a physiology professor, tipsy at the close of a long-winded faculty dinner. In response to the essential orthodox remark that the Humanities are, after all, about Civilization, he begins to lecture...
...that without the Commons, there would be no way for students to get to know each other outside the classroom; because most Ed School students live off-campus with their families and study at home, along with holding part-or full-time jobs, the Commons enables them to gossip about their classes, to share previous experiences, or simply to study together in a convenient locale outside of the library...