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...much of a distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have called her to the witness stand, to gain tabloid headlines from the exposure of Bettie's lurid luster. Instead, while her producer defended his films ("But there's no nudity!") and psychiatrists attacked them, she sat outside the hearing room for 16 hours, ignored...
...only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house, saying his salary won't permit him to stand on his own. Not only is he older than I, but he also earns more. I send half my salary home to my loved ones. Stay-at-home sons should grow up and realize that bettering one's life entails a lot of sacrifice. Take us immigrants, for example...
...Some tourists, perhaps inured by terrorism spanning the globe in recent years, seemed eager to take a stand against the violence by not budging. American Amy Widener, 41, was dining near the blast site with her father and infant son when the explosions sent panic through the area. But she said they would not change their plans to explore the Red Sea's famous coral reefs. "If I go home, the terrorists win," she said. Scuba instructor Anya Kozlova, 25, from Moscow, arrived a year ago to experience the splendors of the Sinai. She went diving in search of body...
...weak from hunger on the cold concrete floor of a cell in a prison camp in North Korea, not far from the Chinese border. She was five months pregnant and was about to lose her unborn child. Of all the horrors she recalls from that day, she says, two stand out. One is that her sister, who lived in a nearby town, had been brought in to watch what was about to happen to her. The other is the name of North Korean guard, the man who she says killed her unborn child: Hwang Myong Dong...
...well known, but the Cabot House production of “West Side Story” at times fails to capture the underlying energy, passion, and physicality of Leonard Bernstein’s and Stephen Sondheim’s seminal work. Despite these drawbacks, individual actors are able to stand up in their own right. Directed and produced by Cabot House’s Assistant to the Masters Susan Livingston, “West Side Story” runs from April 20 to 29 in the Cabot Junior Common Room. Vocal Director Paul Huberdeau and Orchestra Director Aaron Berkowitz, ably...