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...Laura Antonelli's cold beauty is on view-every single square centimeter of it-in two opulent and languidly erotic Italian films just released in the U.S. Curiously enough, not only does each production star Antonelli, but each is a turn-of-the-century costume drama dealing ironically with the torment of a philandering husband cuckolded by a young wife whom he assumes to be hopelessly frigid. Naturally, given these similarities, it is the differences between the films that are most interesting...
...acquired recognition, Waugh adopted the ways and means of a country gentleman. In a big house he lived surrounded by six children, his second wife Laura, servants, heavy furniture, mullioned windows and good bindings. He was never chatty about his work. On those few occasions when he lowered the drawbridge to journalists, Waugh remained grandly indifferent to explanations of his comic genius. He insisted, "I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language...
Until three years ago, Laura Ruiz '80 spent eleven-hour days picking cabbage on upstate New York farms. On a half-hour CBS program which aired last Saturday, Ruiz, an Adams House sociology concentrator, discussed her childhood as a migrant worker...
Joanne Caplan, one of the show's producers, said she decided to focus on the children of migrant workers in upstate New York. "I heard about Laura, who was going to Harvard, and figured what better way to tell the story than through someone who's been through it," she said...
Caplan said she felt torn between emphasizing the plight of migrant workers in general and "telling the special story of Laura, who now lives in two cultures, not totally belonging to either...