Inspired by a real hairstyle that Ms. Anderson wore in court, she wanted the expression updo to convey the sharp power she achieved by adding a zigzag part and leaving straight branches around her face. “Violent streaks tend to keep people a little alert,” Mr. Moe said. “It was his self-protection.” Knowing that the expression …
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Putting a quiet end to a grueling Winter Olympics, USA’s Jamie Anderson failed to advance to the women’s big-air snowboarding final on Monday, making a disappointing final after the event won silver for the first time at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang. South Korea. Anderson, 31, fell during his first two runs before landing …
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China — American competitive snowboard star Jamie Anderson will attempt to win her third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the women’s incline style final on Sunday. Anderson, a California native, won the slope style’s inaugural Olympic appearance in 2014 and again in 2018. Now 31 years old, he is a strong contender if not …
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One of the first killer jokes in Louie Anderson’s stand-up play was about the rudeness of the older brothers. Imitating one of his own with a frightening voice, he warned that there was a monster in a nearby swamp. With a childlike dread in his eyes, Anderson reported, he avoided that area “until he was …
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Wes Anderson’s expanding comedy-drama “royal Tenenbaums,Released 20 years ago this month, the film tells the story of a family of famous children of genius, the frustrations and neuroses that defined their lives as adults, and the estranged father whose (fake) illness brings them back together under one roof in Upper Manhattan. This is Anderson’s only …
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4. “Death of a salesperson” Arthur Miller is very impressive to me, and I think many times when I’ve been experimenting and doing it wrong. sandy meisner taught me – I had the idea that I couldn’t move without really tearing myself up and crying and doing the deepest work I knew – which I …
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There was another turning point. In 1955, Anderson broke the color barrier of soloists at the Metropolitan Opera by singing the minor but important role of the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera”. In previous years, European houses had applied to him to perform in opera, but he refused as he could …
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Anderson was born in 1947 outside of Chicago to a large, eccentric family. He was one of eight children. Growing up in that home meant constantly marinating in language and stories. One of his brothers was named Thor; a sister was called India. At dinner, each child was expected to tell the story of their …
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Has a book ever brought you closer to or come between you? A few years before my father died in 1978, he wrote a book called “Families: A Memoir and Celebration.” It’s about his family in Mississippi, where he was born, and the family he formed with my mother. I read every year. I was …
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DYERSVILLE, Iowa – His movies never felt like a definitive hit, not quite. But what the maintainers of “Field of Dreams” always have is a sense of duty, as if they are stewards of something valuable. That’s how Kevin Costner felt when filming here 33 years ago, and he felt it again before the Thursday …
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This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about extraordinary people whose deaths were not reported in The Times beginning in 1851. His likeness is engraved on monuments and on gold coins. In Augustus Saint Gaudens‘ high, gilded equestrian statute Honoring Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman at the Grand Army Plaza in …
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