Word: laura
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...action approach. Mario Suarez, played by award-winning Argentine actor Miguel Angel Sola, is creating a tango movie to be filmed in a studio in Buenos Aires. He incorporates into his work aspects of his own life, including the pain of his recent marital separation from the talented dancer Laura Fuentes, as well as his growing passion for the ingenue Elena--a role played with a brilliant combination of sensitivity and seduction by 22-year old Argentine actress Mia Maestro in her film debut. But the main character is none of these, for it is the tango itself that dominates...
...mansion in Austin hadn't come to discuss ways to improve education or reduce teen pregnancy. They were there to support a Bush campaign for President, and some were worried about his resolve. Recent news reports suggested the Governor might be having second thoughts about putting his wife Laura and their twin 17-year-old daughters through the media onslaught of a campaign. "We're ready to work for you," said one of the donors, "but we're hearing your wife and daughters don't want...
...logical place to start is Pepin, Wis., where Laura was born in 1867 in "the little house in the big woods," as she titled her first book. Though the Ingalls log cabin is gone, a faithful reconstruction now occupies the site. Upstairs is a large attic; downstairs are a bedroom, a pantry and a living room with a stone fireplace like the one where Laura and Mary warmed their toes on snowy nights as they listened to Pa's songs and stories. Tourists will also want to see the Pepin Historical Museum and its displays of local history. The town...
When the Ingalls family decided to leave Pepin for the West, they hastened to cross the Mississippi while it was frozen. Today's travelers can cross by bridge in any season and, heading southwest, end up 100 miles later in Burr Oak, Iowa--forward in time to 1876, when Laura was nine and her family arrived there to help run the Masters Hotel. Laura's account of their sojourn in Burr Oak has never been published, and true fans will not want to miss it. The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains...
...Little House memoirs, Laura Ingalls Wilder so vividly limned the homesteads and Midwestern landscapes of her 19th century pioneering girlhood that millions of Americans know them as well as they do their own home and backyard. So engaging is Wilder's prose that after finishing all nine volumes, many can't bear to stop. Instead, they retrace Wilder's frontier by reading the series again and again, first to themselves and later to their children...