Word: ralph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oscar and Lucinda Bold heiress, sensitive clergyman, sinful passion, a trek into the wilderness. Sounds like one of those "classic" novels you'll never get around to. Don't despair. Gillian Armstrong and her stars, Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett, find something feverishly unsettling under the black robes of Victorian propriety...
...DIED. RALPH FASANELLA, 83, self-taught painter; in Yonkers, N.Y. A machinist who took up the brush to help his arthritis, Fasanella was "discovered" in 1972. His favorite subjects: the Big Apple and its human gridlock...
...image to cherish--a little country church, improbably fashioned out of glass and wrought iron, bobbing down an untamed river deep in the 19th century Australian wilderness. How in the world did it and the man delivering it--a nice, pious (if defrocked) clergyman named Oscar Hopkins (Ralph Fiennes)--end up in these unlikely precincts...
...trick, he says, is to "get teachers to overcome their fears." Ralph Ramos, a teacher at Picacho Middle School, confesses that his computers were sitting idle in the classroom. "Then Aaron trained me, and now I have my class dissecting frogs on the computer with a CD-ROM program and doing research on the Internet...
...every hand that has approached the diary with the well-meaning intention of publicizing it has contributed to the subversion of history," charged novelist Cynthia Ozick in a recent New Yorker article in which she claimed the diary has been "falsified, kitschified and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied." Ralph Melnick, author of The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank, contends that the play so carefully avoids the particulars of the Jews' plight under Hitler that it almost becomes "a drama of people who were suffering through a housing shortage...