Word: jill
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...elegant and excellent new book, “New York Burning,” the chair of Harvard’s History and Literature program, Jill M. Lepore, uses Horsmanden’s journal–placed alongside other contemporary material—to try to reconstruct just what happened that fateful year. In addition to the fires and the trials, she deftly interweaves tidbits about 1741 New York–from how slaves interacted with each other to how people obtained clean water–that vividly bring the city to life. The result is a compelling narrative?...
...member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. But Ben's independent streak led him to join the Army just out of high school. His death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think this would be so difficult," he says. "It's one of the saddest things. It's put a crimp in our relationships." Colgan says he sees very similar dysfunction in the national feuding over Iraq...
When not tossing and turning through dark stormy nights in pretty lacy underwear and barely-there white tees, Hudson decently delivers the stale dialogue handed her. About to enter a suspicious shop with her best friend, “Jill the Thrill” (Joy Bryant), she taunts, “You’re scared? ‘Jill the Thrill’ is scared...
Hudson isn’t a bad actress—we’ll leave that to “Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...
...some girls seem to thrive under the pressure. Kelsie Cale, a cheerleader at St. Pius X Catholic School in Dallas, is forever practicing, even if it means commandeering a grocery aisle as her stage. Her mom Jill Cale, who was a cheerleader herself, believes Kelsie's experience on the squad has made her daughter "more of a leader." And it shows. When an inner-city cheer team struggles to finish its routine at the S.M.U. camp, Kelsie gets the St. Pius squad and all the other squads to chant "Good job! Good job!" to encourage the rival team. Later, when...