Word: laura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than faces. They were riper, more mature, more compelling and light-years ahead in performance power. Jean Harlow in any of her 1930s flicks...
...second act, dealing with more serious topics, is not so joke-filled as the first, but its satire of the Eighties is bitingly funny. Mendel most openly condemns the new decade: "half my patients/yuppie pagans/modeled on this/Ronald Reagan" Yet he and Trina seem to be living quite the yuppified Laura-Ashley-decorated lifestyle. In this act, real love develops between Whizzer and Martin, as does some of the loveliest music of the show. In these quiet, poignant moments, the cast's talent for handling emotion with delicacy and without melodrama and their collective vocal strength, is most clearly showcased...
...Reported by Laura Lopez/Mexico City and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...corruption scandal that has shakenMexicoto the core. Ruiz Massieu's brother, a top political official, was murdered in September, allegedly in a plot masterminded by the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Ruiz Massieu is suspected of taking part in the murder conspiracy.TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopezsays U.S. and Mexican officials have traced up to $20 million that he stashed in banks around the U.S. since last March, and that they claim evidence of links to the cartel. "If Mario's been involved, it's been a very short time," Says Lopez. "But he made...
...consult Archaeotype's six online ``libraries'' of scholarly information and images (military, religious, royalty, etc.) as well as the greater resources of Dalton's library or even the Assyrian collection at the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art. ``It was like our own little land inside the computer,'' says Laura Zuckerwise, 12, who completed the course last year. ``If we found a new artifact, it was as though we were the first people to discover it!'' Room 608. Like generations before them, the students in Jacqueline D'Aiutolo's 10th-grade English class have begun the epic journey into the dark...