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...newer female counterpart group, made up of women from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, was founded to have "a women's club so that we can sit around and drink like men," says Kirsten Shirley '85, a charter member and original founder of LEWD...
...join, or who are able to define themselves in anyway as "experienced." While the club does not host speakers, there is an official LEWD photograph and theme song. Sometimes, the "experienced" in the club's name changes to a different adjective to "match the mood of the week," Shirley explains. The group has, on occasion, been the "exotic" and "exciting" women drinkers as well...
...golf course." Such guile, plus prodigious energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge William Blanton remembers when Marshall and another woman lawyer were known disparagingly around the courthouse as "Laverne and Shirley." Now, he says, "I'm sure glad I'm not a young male lawyer having to contend with...
Every passionate pilgrim needs a guide, and Big Bird's is a six-year-old charmer named Ouyang Lianzi. She is a Chinese Shirley Temple without that child star's cloying cuteness, and she steals the show. Stone selected her from among 100 videotaped auditions sent to him from China. The only difficulty was that Lianzi did not speak a syllable of English. Before filming, Stone mailed her an audio cassette of her 64 lines; helped by her father, she memorized them phonetically without understanding their meaning...
...mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart Maria (Karen...