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Moreover, Holland's reputation as the one-woman United Nations of modern filmmakers gave her a sizable advantage in tackling James, one of our most famously wordy scribes. "In some ways, the dialogue became less important when I began to work in different languages. I can change the dialogue and it doesn't change how I'm going to say what I'm going...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ms. Holland Goes 19th C | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...through the NCAA tournament. Now, with First Team All-America forward Emily Stauffer taking the year off following a bone marrow transplant to her brother, Matt, who has leukemia (see full story in Friday's Crimson), this team's challenge is to prove that last season was not a one-woman show...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Soccer Tries To Duplicate Past Success | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...handily through three highly readable if not altogether believable episodes in the career of Jane Whitefield, a lone operative of stunning beauty and bone-crushing martial-arts skills. She is half Seneca Indian and half Irish American, and her useful talent is to function as a very unofficial one-woman witness-relocation program, helping people disappear into new identities when the forces of evil are about to pounce. She thinks of herself as "a guide," and she most often guides with brainpower, computer savvy, a delightfully devious nature and a library of false identities, fleshed out with features like credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...whole season, but she had to carry the entire offensive workload early on. In the third game of the season (at B.U.), MacNaughton scored five of the team's 10 goals to lead a comeback victory, prompting Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder to mutter after one of her tallies, "We're a one-woman offense...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lax Stays in Ivy Lower Echelon | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...After her Belgian father was slain in 1964 by rebels bent on ethnic cleansing, Daulne, a native of Zaire, and her Bantu mother took shelter with a tribe of pygmies before escaping to Belgium. With a background like that, it's no wonderDaulne makes music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MAMA AFRICA | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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