Word: womanize
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...theater. Even the season's hit political satire, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, is one Administration - and what seems a whole political era - out of date. Dan Gordon's Irena's Vow, starring Tovah Feldshuh as a Polish-Catholic woman who saves a dozen Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in the cellar of the SS officer's house where she works as a housekeeper, seems just as old hat: an earnest but clumsily staged Holocaust melodrama of the sort we've seen many times before, and usually better...
...Fittingly, the central character in Michael Jacobs' new play Impressionism is yet another emotionally stunted middle-aged woman (Joan Allen) too obsessed with art to be able to relate to other people. The art, in this case, is a beloved collection of Impressionist paintings in the gallery she owns; the significant other is a globetrotting photographer (Jeremy Irons) who comes to work for her. Again, two excellent actors struggle to bring life to an underenergized wisp of a play whose organizing conceit - we see key incidents from their lives in flashbacks, through the images of the famous paintings...
Ciao Bella! Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana know a thing or two about making a woman look glamorous. Their debut cosmetics line, with ads featuring Scarlett Johansson, promises to live up to the hype. No detail escaped their attention, from the color palette gleaned from their fabric swatches to the powdery rose scent of the lipstick and even the click...
Yeah, that answer surprised us too. The lecture hall was packed almost to capacity with a handful of undergraduates and an overwhelming number of crossword enthusiasts from the Boston area, easily identified by graying hair, thick glasses, and/or crossword paraphernalia. One woman wore a crossword grid scarf. Another carried a crossword grid tote bag. Flyby began to feel a little boxed in by all the black-and-white squares...
...Younis says she was told by parents that armed militants had gone to their houses and warned the children to stay away from her music center. "In one house, the woman kept running to the window to check if anybody was watching us," she says. "The parents, the children, they're all scared...