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...movies based on plays by legendary Broadway writers George Kaufman and Edna Farber. It traces the influence of theatrical wannabe Terry Randall (Hepburn) on the struggling actresses. But the main fun is watching the women bicker and bond with their claws out, hiding nothing; the men are basically plot devices. On first glance, “Stage Door” seems sort of creaky—an old timey piece. But, as my roommate who arrived mid-movie said, “I don’t usually like black and white movies, but this is really well-written...
...worked at the Harvard Square Staples until March. Now she is waiting for her water to break.Sitting on a chair in the grass outside her ground floor apartment, Barber is also waiting to be told when and where she will have to move. Currently, her home sits on a plot of land at the heart of Harvard’s new Allston campus, a seven-acre triangle at the intersection of Western Ave. and North Harvard Street that may become a new center for the arts. Not yet owned by Harvard, the property is the focus of a proposal brought...
...Hanoi doesn't see Chanh in quite the same light. The government accuses him of masterminding a failed 1999 plot to blow up Vietnamese monuments and of ordering the 2001 bombing of its embassy in Phnom Penh, as well as other attempted attacks both in Cambodia and Thailand. In a 2001 interview with TIME, Chanh boasted of his involvement in the 1999 plot; he added that his operatives in Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh...
...Ellen C. Quigley ’07, who serves both as an additional source of comic relief and as a second mother figure, adds a much-needed warmth to the discontented themes of the play.HRDC acting and directing veteran Birnbaum’s direction is characteristically excellent. Although some plot points are never resolved, and the presence of some scenes distracts from the main drama between Bernarda and her daughters (such as the recurring appearance of the senile grandmother Maria Josefa, excellently acted by Masha O. Godina ’08), Birnbaum succeeds at creating a claustrophobic small-town feel...
...Villa Tevere, the Rome headquarters of Opus Dei, a couple of dozen men convened in a chamber similar to the one in which The Da Vinci Code's Bishop Aringarosa was handed ?20 million in Vatican bonds to set his nefarious plot in motion. From London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York City, Lagos and Montreal they had come, to draft a plan against a man they felt posed the most virulent threat to their order: director Ron Howard...