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...Mike T. Von Rueden '88, a Kirkland Housefootball player, echoed her sentiments. "Athletesare always rushed to get in on time," he said."I'm sure it will be a big help--it's better forpeople with a late schedule...
...HAVE those days when we wish we just hadn't gotten out of bed. Thanksgiving 1986, was one of those days for one Alexandra Sternburghen alias Viveca Von Loren (Jane Fonda), a down-and-out, little-to-be-thankful-for actress. Lolling around in the sheets of a stranger's bed, she rolls over to find that her lover of the previous eve has a large machete stuck in the middle of his chest. "If that's one of those trick knives, you can pull it out now." Its no trick. Its genuine ginsu...
Lost in this bleak landscape is the vivacious Madame Von Loren. Supported by her hairdresser ex-husband (Raul Julia), she stumbles from one bottle of Stolichnaya to the next, oblivious to the craziness of the world outside her pink walls. Oblivious, that is, until she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man she doesn't even remember meeting, let alone killing...
FIGARO GETS A DIVORCE Odon von Horvath's 1937 satire about an ousted dictator got a dazzling U.S. premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse near San Diego. Director Robert Woodruff interpolated sly references to the Marcos and Somoza clans, and his expressionistic staging throbbed with energy...
...half-century ago, the coveted award was given in absentia to German Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a writer and opponent of Nazism who died shortly after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium...