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Kristina Isola made working for the company a family affair. After spending her childhood with her grandmother on a farm that has been in the family for eight generations, she moved to Helsinki when she was 14 to live with her famous young mother, with whom she was collaborating by the time she was 16. These days Kristina's inspiration for her print designs is Finland's breathtaking natural world, along with the sense of magic and fairy tale that runs through Finnish culture. This spring, the company launched her latest work, Metsanvaki (Forest Dwellers), which draws on images...
...which examines the link between parents' bedtime behavior and sleep disturbances in children during infancy and early childhood. Simard administered yearly questionnaires to 987 parents, whose children were 5 months old at the start of the study. She found that certain "maladaptive" parental habits - such as the mother staying with the child until he or she fell asleep, or the parent giving a child food or drink upon nighttime awakening - appeared to develop in response to babies' early sleep difficulties, at 5 to 17 months of age. In turn, however, some of those calming strategies, which parents reported continuing...
...Often in Dassin films, eroticism shades into sadism. Brute Force and Night and the City have violent thrashings. In The Law, released in the States as Where the Hot Wind Blows, Gina Lollobrigida is strapped down and whipped by her mother. Jean Servais, the honcho of the Rififi heist, commands his ex-girlfriend to strip and then whips her with a belt; later in the film, Dassin, playing one of the hoods, is lashed to a pillar and shot...
BECOMING CHARLTON HESTON He was born John Carter, on Oct. 24, 1924, in Evanston, Ill. (He would take his stage name from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's surname.) At his hometown college, Northwestern, he played in student films as Peer Gynt and Marc Antony; already he was set in the heroic mold. In 1944 he married Lydia, also a Northwestern student, and joined the Army Air Force, serving two years as a radio operator. On Broadway in 1947, he played in Antony and Cleopatra with Katharine Cornell (who, the year before, had done Candida with...
...ruling by Judge Randy Bellows late Thursday night states that the evidence is "overwhelming" that the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is currently in a state of "division" and that, therefore, under a Civil War era state law, control of its property sits with their congregations, not their previous mother church...