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...more dynamic and appealing are Judi Mavon as Rosa Bud and Adam Feldman as John Jasper. Mavon has transformed Rosa Bud from a rather dumb ingenue part as the object of everyone's affections and turned her into an animated, intelligent woman. Mavon is so consistently funny and engaging that her occasional missed high note (her singing is otherwise quite good) is more than forgivable. By the beginning of the second act she has established her character so well that her line to Jasper, "you are a bad bad bad man," actually seems plausible...
...news conference, Fieger compared his client's crusade with those of civil rights heroes Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and India's Mahatma Gandhi. Kevorkian "does not wish to die," Fieger says, but he will continue his fast "unless he is released or the law is struck down." The legislation was overturned once in a county court earlier this year. But the state challenged the decision, and the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed to review it, meanwhile reinstating the law until a ruling comes, probably early next year. The waiting period will sternly test Kevorkian's resolve...
Gelsomina's (Guilietta Masina) sister Rosa has already died on the road with Zampano's (Anthony Quinn) one-man travelling show when "La Strada begins." Needing another assistant, Zampano returns to Rosa's village where the girls' mother agrees to sell Gelsomina to Zampano also, in exchange for 10,000 lire. The other children are going hungry and Gelsomina herself is regarded as somewhat worthless; she is exceedingly timid and does no work to help the family. If this exchange seems somewhat coldhearted, it only hints at the treatment Gelsomina will receive throughout the rest of the film...
...Rosa Shinagel, assistant dean of RadcliffeCollege, said she thinks the program is a goodidea...
...hours I spend viewing the exhibits, the films, and the interactive demonstrations I learned than in over a decade of formal schooling. I saw the actual bus in which Rosa Parks refused to move to the back. The intricate planning and forgotten incidents which made the historic events of the Civil Rights movement possible were all there...