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Mayman herself is no stranger to the arts. A 1966 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mayman says she has studied the piano for 13 years, and taken painting, drawing and dance lessons. After college, Mayman's various activities included: working as an associate director of admissions at Mt. Holyoke College: acting director of admissions at her alma mater: and living in Puerto Rico and England for a year a piece For two years Mayman worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one year coordinating the BSO's 90th anniversary and another fundraising as the assistant director...
McGinn is no stranger to Latin or Central American politics or living conditions. During the past 20 years, he has spent most of his time professionally working on programs to help reform the educational systems in Central American countries. For six of those years he has lived in four different countries teaching and working on programs to help update educational reform...
...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
...seven times through Sept. 13, presents Olivier as a cantankerous Jewish businessman inconsolable at the loss of Florence, his wife of 42 years. At the funeral, a prosperous-looking man in a chesterfield (Gleason) asks if he may drop a pink carnation in the grave. It seems that the stranger had met with Florence regularly but platonically during all those years. The remainder of the film is a conversation between the two in which their antipodal perceptions of the same woman-for Mr. Halpern she was a housewife, for Mr. Johnson an Amaryllis-are meant to be windows into their...
...captures the Cup. "If we win," he says, "we're going to make sure all sailcloth must be made of kangaroo hide. Then we are going to fill up a salt lake in the outback and defend the Cup there." After this wild America's Cup summer, stranger things could happen...