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...Eventually Hollywood paged her. For her debut, as a pearl-diver in "Boy on a Dolphin," she emerged from the sea in a clinging outfit that, when I was about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
Another option is to look for free research from firms whose investment-banking operations are relatively small and whose reputation for integrity is relatively strong. These include Keefe Bruyette Woods for banking stocks, Leerink Swan for biotech, Soundview for tech, Fox Pitt Kelton for financial services and Green Street Advisors for real estate. Prudential Securities is moving to join this group by cutting its investment-banking staff and putting more emphasis on unbiased research. Stock calls from these firms are more reliable than from the biggest brokerages, but they still must be vetted for conflicts and used in concert with...
...stereotypes around it,” Ma says. “Most of the girls I talked to didn’t want to be the Southern debutante who has the huge poufy ball gown dripping with her mommy and daddy’s diamonds and does the Texas Swan Death curtsy...
...South and the North credit the Lone Star state with the most elaborate debuts. And the subject of Texas balls inspires the inevitable discussion of the “Texas bow” (a.k.a. the “Texas Dip” and the “Texas Swan Dive”). The elaborate curtsy is a regionalized version of the bow debutantes did when they were presented to the Queen at St. James’ Court. Player didn’t have to perform it herself but has seen it done. “It’s ridiculous...
...Washington made her film debut in the Dudley Murphy short "Black and Tan" (1929), in which she plays Duke Ellington's girlfriend, a dancer who performs despite illness and collapses after her big number. In this ambitious, primitive two-reeler, she delicately embodies the wild soul inside the dying swan; few actresses looked more wanly gorgeous than she does in her death scene. Murphy (who cast Fredi's sister Isabelle as the Other Woman in his Bessie Smith short, St. Louis Blues") also chose Fredi to play a prostitute in the Paul Robeson "Emperor Jones," where makeup darkened her skin...