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Nose clearly owes a lot to the Russian folk tale tradition of the nebuival'shchina, or humorous tall tale. Duffy takes advantage of the story's fairy-tale quality and frames his adaptation around the premise of a group of adults (Arthur Fuscaldo, Lee Thomsen and Maria Troy) performing the tale to pacify a difficult little girl (Annie Gustavsen) who has locked herself in a basement room, Happily, this device manages not to cross the boundary from charm to terminal cuteness, and while you may occasionally feel like a little malchik being tucked into bed by your babushka...
...Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...
...least as delusive among the women. Wasn't Michela Figini, the fiery Italian-Swiss who is the sport's best woman downhiller, supposed to repeat her Sarajevo victory? And then claw it out for most of the other medals with her teammate and nonfriend the formidable German-Swiss Maria Walliser...
Vieira is just one of a handful of successful journalists who have recently flouted their images as serious professional women by flaunting their glamour and sex appeal. NBC's Maria Shriver, decked out in a strapless evening gown, dallied mischievously with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Vanity Fair shortly before their April 1986 wedding; this month the 32-year-old TV reporter's make-up routine is featured in a stunning photo sequence in Harper's Bazaar. And CBS Superstar Diane Sawyer, 42, radiated Hollywood-star presence in a set of sultry photographs in last September's Vanity Fair...
...dispute that the glitzy publicity is a slick promotional tool. "It's an opportunity to market themselves," says NBC Producer Linda Ellman, who worked with Maria Shriver in Los Angeles. "The more publicity they get, the more people are likely to watch them." The strongest detractors contend that any benefits may be illusory. By playing at being sex objects, they warn, even the most successful women run the risk of eroding their hard-earned credibility...