Word: jacob
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Regina Engstrand (Donna Manley) holds the same position--housekeeper for Mrs. Alving--that her own mother did before her death. The education and refinement she has culled from living in this cosmopolitan home conflicts with the behavior of her offensive step-father, Jacob (Harry Cooper). He frequently reminds his daughter about the duty a child owes a father, although this is some what muffled beneath his deliberately garbled gruffness...
Despite the overall positivity of my pugilistic experience, I still have one lingering insecurity. I can't decide on a good boxing nickname. My roommate immediately declared that he was "Irish" John Donahue. "Jewish" Daniel Jacob Sharfstein did not quite cut it. Neither did "Jean Claude Van" Dan Sharfstein, "Gentleman" Dan Sharfstein, "Dancing" Danny Sharfstein. After reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I thought of Daniel "Yacub" Sharfstein, but that wouldn't do. My grandfather suggested Danny "Soft Touch" Sharfstein. Thanks a lot, Grandpa. I'm working...
...hope. By focusing personal consciousness on the frightened inner child -- as infant, toddler and adolescent -- we can all begin the process of recovery. "The goal of this work is to get you to come to peace with the past and finish it," he tells the crowd in Manhattan's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Dr. Freud meets...
...DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE. Krzysztof Kieslowski's mood piece about two young women -- one Polish, the other Parisian -- is both emotionally opaque and theatrically radiant, for it showcases a beautiful star in the making, Irene Jacob. She won Cannes's Best Actress prize this year; may she illuminate movie screens for decades to come...
First, the angle from which Cloud chooses to attack Sen. Bob Kerrey's presidential campaign is not an original one. In an article written for The New Republic in 1989 by Jacob Weisberg entitled "Senator Perfect," the ideas which Cloud points out are first stated, long before the Crimson piece...