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...have entered, is more derailed by his wife's death than delighted by his daughter's birth. Named for her mother, and thus a constant reminder of Dr. Sloper's loss, Catherine (Leigh) grows up with little hope of connecting with her distant, resentful father. Worse, Austin's sister Lavinia (Maggie Smith) fancies herself a surrogate mother but is too uncouth and undisciplined to make of Catherine a sophisticated lady...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Heiress Comes Into Her Own | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...Girls, the Harvard Stadium was simply filled with thousands of those wonderful Harvards this afternoon," wrote "Lavinia Dirndl;" in a guest column for The Crimson. "You've never seen so many crinkly tweeds in your life...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Game Returns After Three-Year Hiatus; 'Crinkly Tweeds' Fill Stadium | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...only girl who doesn't fall for Sara's Scheherazade routine is the jealous, obsessively hair-brushing Lavinia (Taylor Fry), whose machinations would fit right into "90210: The Elementary School Years," Sara meets Lavinia's jealousy with innocent incomprehension. Nor can she understand why the students why the students aren't allowed to talk to the Black servant girl, Becky (Vanessa Lee Chester). Sara promptly sets out to befriend Becky, despite the house taboo...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: A Little (Kids') Charmer | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...Have Tried to Find You for for Lavinia Currier...

Author: By Virginia S.K. Loo, | Title: Edmunds Treads Tired Road to Taos | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...Olympics past enabled audiences to lose their hearts to a charismatic Olga, a mysterious Nadia or an exuberant Mary Lou. The gymnasts often seemed more like automatons than human beings. Even on the medal stand, Gutsu and her fellow medalists -- Shannon Miller of the U.S. and Romania's Lavinia Milosovici -- conveyed little joy. They seemed to have not so much won as survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gymnastics Ode to Joylessness | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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