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...Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses to star in Hollywood as well as Italian movies. The list is long and enticing: Valentina Cortese, who made the 40s "Thieves Highway"; delicate Pier Angeli and her twin sister Marisa Pavan; Magnani, who won an Oscar for her first Hollywood movie, "The Rose Tattoo"; and the ever-intoxicating Valli (Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case...
...while some are excited about the long-distance possibilities of remote-control operations, it's the application for on-location surgery that most excites surgeons, and patients like Valentina Tichtchenko. While visiting her daughter recently in San Ramon, the 69-year-old native of St. Petersburg, Russia, began having difficulty swallowing. It worsened to the point where she couldn't eat at all; she was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. Traditional surgery involves an incision from the throat down to the belly button. "It's a very violent operation," says cardiothoracic surgeon Murali Dharan, making a digging motion with...
Some students, like Valentina M. Perez '03, have already learned the hard way. Perez said she averaged three hours of sleep a night her first year but then changed her habits; she now clocks in at least seven hours of sleep per night...
...Hope you like thinly veiled sexism. The women of The Jackal function only to jump-start the barely realized "vendetta" between Mulqueen and The Jackal. The film's best character by far, Major Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora), is wasted (literally and figuratively) to give the ineffectual Mulqueen another score to settle--a terrible thing to do to a strong, interesting female character. The script tries to redeem itself by giving Mulqueen's former girlfriend, Isabella (Matilda May), a key role in the resolution of the plot; but because her role is so impoverished throughout most of the film, the effect...
...aura of authority around him," says Valentina Antipova, 57, a neighbor who recalls Gennadi playing the conciliator even as a boy. "Whenever there was a quarrel, he would come out and break...