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...seen this film on the big screen? like every old film, "Psycho" is only available on videocassette, a format that gets about as close to the experience of seeing a film in a theatre as a tenth generation cassette gets to live performance. Do you remember the scene when Lila approaches the Bates mansion? The picture cuts from her to the house; then to Lila, a little closer; then to the house, a little bigger; then to Lila, almost at the porch...but on your cruddy TV the effect of that ominous shot of the house looming over...

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: PSYCHCEDIPUS | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...last ten years, we have sort of semi-moved. Right now, I am sitting pretty because I won a rather wonderful award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. They give $10,000 a year to get involved in some community activity which you feel passionately about. And what I do feel very passionately about are the problems in our part of the world and the antagonism between the subcontinental countries. My proposal is to set up a forums for subcontinental understanding through dialogue. I am planning to have about four writers a year, broad-minded people from...

Author: By Anita Jain, | Title: `Any People, Any Culture' | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...Sanskrit title derives from two words: turanga, meaning flowing time, movement or rhythm; and lila, or love, sport, the play of the gods. The symphony's 10 movements, which last well over an hour, are rife with programmatic references to the ancient Celtic love story of Tristan and Iseult, to the myths of ancient India, even to the spooky stories of Edgar Allan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Terror | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard creative writing professor won a three-year research grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, award officials announced earlier this week...

Author: By Radi M. Annab, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Creative Writing Professor Wins Major Research Grant | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

...foot of Mount Hood in Oregon, where Lila Foggia, 44, a former Hollywood studio vice president, now fishes for steelhead outside her family's forest-shaded house on the bank of the Salmon River and exults, "God, I love living among normal people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endangered Dream | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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