Word: vera
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...year-old art student in London in the 1950s, Jack Rathbone meets the already established Scottish painter Vera Savage. Thirteen years older, she's a nasty if bewitching specimen--brilliant when she cares to be but also alcoholic, feckless and carnal. The story of their long, dissolute companionship is told to us by Gin Rathbone, Jack's all-too-loving sister, a woman who does not grasp the full dimensions of the tale she is telling...
...Irving Libman, Sylvia Stone; Everett H. H. Stahl, Ruth Davis; Paul A. Levi, Vera Frankel...
...performance in royalties when other troupes staged his works, recalls his onetime assistant Barbara Horgan, director of the George Balanchine Trust, which licenses performances by other companies. He formed intense bonds with his favored female dancers, making them his muses. He married four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their ?Mr. B.? ?I can?t say that I knew him well,? says former NYCB dancer Ib Andersen, artistic director of Ballet Arizona. ?But his ballets are part...
...Vera Orozco, the nanny, arrives to begin her 10 1/2-hour shift at the Nevinses'. Cheryl, a labor lawyer for the Chicago board of education, hands over the baby and checks her e-mail from the kitchen table. "I almost feel apprehensive if I leave for work without logging on," she confesses. Between messages, she helps Ryan pull blue Play-Doh from a container, then briefs Orozco on the morning's events: "They woke up early. Ryan had his poop this morning, this guy has not." Throughout the day, Orozco...
...what happened to the baby Correa seemed to be carrying? Says Moore: "I have no idea." He said he learned Aaliyah was not his child when he requested a paternity test in 1999. The Philadelphia city council will hold hearings to review the fire investigation. Attorneys expected Delimar Vera to move into her mother's custody early this week...