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...scars. Perhaps that was a little part of her magic: after slaughter and in the midst of chilling political uncertainty, the world found a grace in her that it yearned for. She seemed serene, but she was quick to laughter. She was ethereal -- she gave a credible performance as Rima, the bird creature in Green Mansions -- but she could be sensual and knowing, whether in the mock innocence of her Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, or, later, in the painful cunning of the beleaguered wife in Two for the Road. Surely she must have been thoroughly sick...
Singles: 1, Stacey Vogel, BU, def. Kristin Bland, H, 6-3, 6-2; 2, Jamie Henikoff, H, def. Kinda Kim, BU, 7-6, 6-1; 3, Rima Jasaitis, BU, def. Cyndy Austrian, H, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1; 4, Kathy Mulvehal, H. def. Rosalyn Chua, BU, 6-3, 6-4; 5, Martha Berkman, H, def. Diane Ison, BU, 6-2, 6-1; 6, Amy DeLone, H, def. Nancy Pastoriza...
...Rima Jasaitis (BU) d. Robin Boss...
Nims offers himself as an old-fashioned lover of forms, both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
...bird, while I am oppressed and sad. Teach me how to fly above the sound of bullets. Teach me how to be free." The children, ages three and four, held hands as they sang The Song of the Bird in the sun-drenched courtyard. The song was written by Rima Terazi, 48, a member of the Society of In'ash El-Usra, a Palestinian rehabilitation center in El-Bireh on the West Bank. It includes a day care center for Palestinian children whose fathers are imprisoned for political crimes and also offers courses in homemaking and secretarial skills...