Word: maura
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...Dubai,” writes Matthew S. Roller ’08 in an e-mail, “if I ever happened to be in the area.” And another tourist from the Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam bestowed a gift-wrapped plaque upon Keyster Maura A. Graul ’07. Often these exchanges are awkwardly personal. James H. O’Keefe ’09, also a Crimson editor, was interrogated by a tourist about his love life. “By the end I felt naked...
...Neither claim is true. It remains to be seen what, if any, effect these ads will have, but Ford responded immediately with a spot featuring average Tennesseans expressing their disgust with the Republicans. A woman named Maura Satchell says, "My son's life is on the line in Iraq, and they're putting out these ads just to distract...
...begins with a tracking shot through the cemetery in a Spanish village, as dozens of widows polish the tombstones of their late husbands. Among the mourners is Raimunda (Penélope Cruz, in a performance of great strength and ferocity), scrubbing down the grave of her mother Irene (Carmen Maura). With his usual taste for bizarre but plausible narrative twists, Almodóvar manages, in the first 40 minutes, to get a corpse in the freezer and a ghost under the bed. And he's just getting started, since nearly everyone in Volver has a dreadful family secret...
...Last Stand. But its usual fare is provocative or perplexing films from top directors. Three of the attention-grabbing entries: Volver Pedro Almodvar blends ghost story, revenge drama and all-girl comedy in a tale of courageous, if loco, sisterhood. Lovely Penlope Cruz and spectral Carmen Maura merit laurels, maybe Oscars...
...actress and the director are back together, for another exploration of women in extremis, and they seem instantly in perfect synch. The last line of the film, which Cruz enunciates with a grand, simple intensity to Maura, could also be Almodovar's testimony to his old friend and star: "I don't know how I've lived all these years without...