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...Previously, my parents’ Internet surfing adventures were limited to seeking out the liberal media bidding on eBay for Asian art. In the fall of my freshman year, however, my mother developed a more dangerous obsession: nightly trips to petfinder.com to seek out dogs in need of rescue. Pippi, as we named our Kansas City rescue, was found abandoned and meandering in the median strip of a highway in Missouri, and soon became my mother’s newest surrogate child...
...scientific organization (“The Institute”) in which Foustka works, is wonderfully stilted, and makes fabulous use of his body language; and in her brief appearance as Foustka’s landlady, Allison Smith ’06 contributes well. And finally, vigorous kudos to Pippi Kessler ’05 for her dynamically awesome entries and exits as the silent “Secret Messenger...
Tanhehco’s piece Toys has generated considerable buzz in the Harvard community. Inspired by her own observations of men disrespecting women, Tanhehco co-collaborated on a script with Abby Fee, Joe Small and Pippi Kessler. The dance is largely improvised; Tanhehco strove to give her dancers creative freedom, offering tips on motivation, focus and blocking. “I thought it might be interesting to deal with the issues of female exploitation by placing men in their shoes. At first the piece was a fluffy sort of examination of exploitation with women yelling commands...
...first literary adaptation, a "genre" that has become his specialty. His two Swedish Pippi Longstocking films and his best-known English-language features - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat - all began as books. He can't explain why so much of his work has been book-based but says he likes material "that isn't linear, that goes with characters...
...versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, internationally renowned Swedish author of more than 70 children's books, including the now classic Pippi Longstocking; in Stockholm. Lindgren originally conceived the tale of the feisty red-haired heroine as a bedtime story for her seven-year-old daughter. DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, American WWII veteran who delivered an Oscar-winning performance in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham, Massachusetts. Russell lost...