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...actress; she demands a kind of Renaissance celebrity. Isabella Rossellini, for example, could have decided to coast through gossip pages as the gorgeous daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian Film Master Roberto Rossellini. Instead she has become a journalist, a television performer, a film actress and, on a whim, one of the fashion world's most sought-after models. Joanna Pacula rose quickly through the disciplines of theater, film and TV acting in her native Poland; now she has the female lead in the Hollywood adaptation of Martin Cruz Smith's bestselling novel Gorky Park, and oh yes, she dazzled...
Most fourth-year grad students take only highly specialized courses and research their theses--there is little time to indulge an intellectual whim. For Bergvall, though, this course provides the historical context for her own research in Kikuyu. She has, in fact, applied for a Fulbright grant to study the language in Kenya next year...
...much resonance as the picture of the RCA dog cocking an ear for "His Master's Voice." In establishing Fitzcarraldo's motivation so haphazardly. Herzog undermines the rest of the film at the outset: instead of being drawn into a grand quest we are forced to watch an overblown whim...
Whether the Harvard field hockey team's near-perfect season will be rewarded with an Ivy championship or an NCAA tournament berth now depends on five more games and the whim of a committee...
...domestic industries, which will lose sales to those foreign businesses that refuse to play our silly game. U.S. Trade Representative William Brock is right. It is time to establish with the NATO countries some long-range policy that won't change every four years with the whim of the latest President...