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...female inmate orchestra at the Auschwitz death camp, who recounted her ordeal in the memoir Playing for Time; of a heart attack; in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Fénelon's 1976 book was made into a television movie four years later, with Vanessa Redgrave portraying Fénelon despite objections because of pro-Palestine Liberation Organization statements...
...After, much of the power came from the quasidocumentary idea that nuclear destruction had been visited upon the real town of Lawrence, Kans., rather than upon some back lot of Warner Bros. The best movie sets remain always movie sets, and in a reconstructed Auschwitz, a grimy-faced Vanessa Redgrave remains always Vanessa Redgrave. And as we have lately been watching with a shudder the theatricality of a tousle-haired young actor shot during a Dallas motorcade, we can hardly help asking: Why are we looking at this? What is the point being made...
Undergraduate Council member Vanessa A. Davila '84 expressed the concerns of Freshman Council members that advisors do not provide an adequate source of information on the structure and offerings of various departments...
Jesse Jackson's claim that Vanessa Williams did for the Miss America Pageant what Jackie Robinson did for the Brooklyn Dodgers is absurd [Oct. 3]. Williams lives in a society that has legally abolished racial segregation. That was not the case when Robinson broke baseball's "color barrier" in 1947. Also, Williams did not endure the racial insults or physical intimidation that Robinson did. The two achievements are not comparable...
...Vanessa Williams' light skin, auburn hair and green eyes are beautiful but disturbing. Are the most beautiful black women really those who most closely resemble white women...