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...Americans have privately known for years: that there are benefits simply for being a minority who is fairer. Traditionally, "beauty barriers" have almost exclusively been broken by lighter-skinned blacks - from the earliest black sex symbols such as Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams. This is why Sims was such a revelation: a beautiful black woman who was - from her skin tone to her hair texture - truly and quintessentially black. She opened the runway door for others, including role model Michelle Obama and the other supermodel Naomi - Campbell - to catwalk through. (See pictures...
...amazing scholar, beloved teacher, and a really generous and congenial colleague,” said fellow HAA professor Jennifer L. Roberts. Pedagogically, Kelsey is known for his vibrant lectures and close attention to students. “He’s a fantastic professor,” said Vanessa J. Dube ’10, who has taken multiple classes with Kelsey. “He is able to communicate his expertise into a passion for teaching and he cares a lot about undergraduate life.” Kelsey’s core class, Literature and Arts...
...Heath Ledger was shooting when he died in Jan. 2008; Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell graciously stepped in to assume different aspects of the Ledger role. Fans here will greet Depp as an honorary Frenchman; his spouse-equivalent, and the mother of his two children, is singer-actress Vanessa Paradis. (Read: "Sweeney Todd: Horror and Humanity...
...under a crown of red hair, could mark her as this generation's russet Redgrave." Anyone who saw her made the comparison to an actress of similar height, looks, talent, famous family and attachment to left-wing causes - and who won an Oscar for another movie called Julia. Yet Vanessa Redgrave, behind her imposing facade, always suggested the shy vulnerability of a little girl lost, Swinton radiates a self-confidence that is commanding and commandeering; she could be any of her ancestors leading a charge on the battlefield...
...think it gives people something really concrete on which to focus their reading.” “She brings a unique perspective and a high level of scholarship that, when combined with her approachable nature, makes her an outstanding professor,” says Vanessa R. Dube ’10, a future senior thesis advisee of Roberts’ and a Crimson editorial editor. The professor’s popularity extends beyond the HAA department. In 2005, Professor Roberts was selected by the then-junior class of the College to give one of only four lectures...