Word: rachel
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...editorial staff, and Nancy A. Redd ’03, recognized in part for winning $250,000 on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” taking in the largest prize of any African American on a game show. —Staff writer Rachel Banks can be reached at banks@fas.harvard.edu...
...itself a showy take on the 1988 John Waters cult film about teens in a dance contest in Civil Rights-era Baltimore. Fall brings Across the Universe, a 1960s love story set to Beatles songs, directed by The Lion King's Julie Taymor, with a cast including Evan Rachel Wood and Bono. And at year's end, just in time for Oscar season, comes Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp as the murderous barber in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller...
...else orders - and he falls a little in love with her loneliness. She leaves New York for Memphis, where she gets a couple of waitressing jobs and meets a cop (David Strathairn) who's sunk into alcoholism over the departure of his good-time wife Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). Elizabeth then goes to Nevada, cocktailing in a casino. There she encounters Leslie (Natalie Portman), a canny gambler who's got a sassy line of patter and is almost, but not quite, as good at cards as she thinks...
Wishfort’s daughter and co-conspirator with Mirabell is Mrs. Fainall (Rachel E. Flynn ’09), whose husband is having an affair with Mrs. Marwood (Sophie C. Kargman ’08), a woman who is trying to thwart Mirabell. Wishfort wants Millament to marry Sir Willful Witwoud (Rob D. Salas ’08), a loud and crass gentryman from the countryside, whose brother (Barry A. Shafrin ’09) lives in the city and has become a full-time fop who helps Mirabell with his schemes. Got all that...
...Kerrys met when the senator and Teresa’s first husband, the late Senator John Heinz, a leading liberal Republican, were keynoting at an Earth Day rally in 1990. The authors begin with some decent, if unspectacular, examples of environmental destruction. They detail the work of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson, and use her experiences as a springboard to discuss the challenges posed by toxic pollution and how environmental contamination contributes to cancer. The solutions they provide in the first chapters are sound—highlighting environmentally-conscious manufacturing and sustainable urban planning, among other things. Still, these first...