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...native dance (it's mostly just running) and gets whipped for her insolence. Simmons's blond-wigged "most beautified Ophelia" is another willful creature, no less flirtatious with her brother Laertes than she is crazy for Hamlet. As a girl-child unable to cope with the roiling emotions of passion and rejection, Simmons aces her mad scene and makes a most picturesque suicide, in a weedy white dress, supine in a stream. "She was lovely in both of them," Powell wrote of Simmons in his autobiography, "I don't think that she was ever quite so good again." (See Jean...
...This loss can really be turned into an opportunity. It can really be a wakeup call,” he said. “We’re going to take that energy and take that passion and try to understand how we can have the biggest impact...
Palfrey's colleagues praised her longstanding passion for helping children with disabilities, and Susan M. Foley, co-principal investigator of Opening Doors affiliated with UMass-Boston, commented that the "symbolism of her carrying the torch is potent...
...sports-inspirational drama starring Sandra Bullock. Still in the top seven after eight weeks of release, the movie has now earned $219.2 million on a $29 million budget. It's now the all-time top grosser in the based-on-a-true-story genre (unless you count The Passion of the Christ). At the moment it trails only E.T., the first Narnia saga, New Moon, Twister and My Big Fat Greek Wedding among movies with a woman as the top-billed performer - and Bullock is the only lead actress in those films with real star power. So by any standard...
...heart of Shi'a Islam is a 1,400-year-old passion play of political succession: the hero is Hussain, grandson of the Prophet; the villain is Yazid, the usurper of the Caliphate; and each year on the holy day of Ashura, their bloody conflict is re-enacted as a Shi'ite cri de coeur. Iran, the pre-eminent Shi'ite nation, commemorated Ashura amid its own power struggle. Tens of thousands took to the streets, chanting, "We are the army of Imam Hussain ... supporters of Mir-Hossein." Hussain had become Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the declared loser in last June...