Word: marilyn
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...Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) is a minor movie player, now edging even closer to the margin as she toils in the not entirely promising indie production of Home for Purim, a 1940s period piece, set in the South in which she plays a terminally ill mother awaiting the return of her long-estranged daughter for that most obscure of Jewish holidays. One day, though, one of the crew informs her that she's been mentioned for an Oscar nomination on one of the show biz blogs...
...obsessed with so-called “traditional values.” This past Saturday, Bush spoke in support of a Republican candidate for House in Colorado who, he said, shared the same principles as the people she will represent (she won her race). “Marilyn Musgrave understands the importance of defending traditional values,” Bush was quoted as saying in The New York Times. “She has worked to prevent the institution of marriage from being redefined by activist judges. She understands your values...
...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...
...middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes and homes, but stick with traditional beer and spirits. "There are at least 10 wine festivals per year in Johannesburg, and you can count on one hand the number of people of color who attend them," says Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have got to get our black population drinking wine." Talk to some of the locals at the festival, and there are encouraging signs of change. Two years ago, Thami Xaba...
...Billboard charts to #18. This is the person who in the same summer said that she cries when she hears her music, told British GQ that she will not have sex for a year, and proclaimed herself to be this generation’s iconic blonde à la Marilyn Monroe. —Staff writer Emily G.W. Chau can be reached at egchau@fas.harvard.edu...