• She did not even plan but floated through images, for she did not plan her movements.

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  • Her results met with widespread scepticism, for she has refused to reveal exactly how she synthesised the material.

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  • Her speech was significant, for she has never before said she would like to rule the country, but mostly it was symbolic.

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  • Not for a moment did the mirror make her look young, or beautiful, for she was not young and she was not beautiful.

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  • One always imagined her lightly smacking some incompetent on the head with her purse, for she carried a purse, as a lady would.

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  • Not that Elaine dislikes hookers, for she says if you keep them out you also close down half the restaurants in New York.

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  • To the others she offered not a word, for she knew that the question was unrelated to biology, to where babies come from and how they're made.

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  • The church was hers, she considered, for she had found it and brought life to it, making more of it than a mere outward and visible sign.

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  • But I'm very proud of the campaign she ran: She never quit on the people she stood up for, on the changes she pushed for, on the future she wants for all our children.

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  • She would follow such iconic childhood turns in films like Taxi Driver, Freaky Friday, and Bugsy Malone with adult performances in hit movies like The Accused (for which she won an Oscar) and Silence of the Lambs (for which she won another Oscar).

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  • Unfortunately, Ms. Nixon's acting is part of what's wrong with the production, for she plays Vivian Bearing, the austere, loveless scholar of 17th-century poetry around whose terrible plight "Wit" revolves, as though she were a precocious schoolgirl rather than a full-grown, forbiddingly chilly intellectual.

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  • It seems however that Elaine does not have this idea for her joint at the beginning, but moves up from Greenwich Village in 1963 with her pots and pans with the thought that she will open a writers' dive, for she has a soft spot for all scribblers, especially when they are down on their luck.

    ECONOMIST: Elaine Kaufman

  • She did not behave or speak in the way of the women he normally met, for she had always inhabited an indefinite space, neither rich nor poor, neither servant nor begum, in a city where the very concept of a middle class still found expression in only a few households, among managers of banks and of big industrial concerns sugar and textiles and steel.

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  • Although she had been generating income from selling her own calendars and modeling for catalogues, she hit the big time by creating her own fashion line--for which she still models--and licensing her name and image to 16 manufacturers that sell her products at 50, 000 locations in 15 countries.

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  • "I consider that she has expressed little real remorse for what she did, rather the sorrow and regret which she expressed to the police was largely because of the situation in which she found herself, and not for the events in which she played her part, " he said.

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  • On the other side, facing the street, was her living room-den-office, which contained two upholstered chairs and the desk she reserved for projects outside of work publicity for bands she believed in, short reviews for Vibe and Spin although these had fallen off sharply in recent years.

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  • Mrs Edwards said that when doctors told her she was too late for surgery she was desperate for a lifeline.

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  • She is fraudulent, and she applies for grants she doesn't deserve or isn't even really eligible for.

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  • If the product is going to Europe, for example, she knows that she can ask for more money if she uses higher quality fabrics.

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  • She recently wrote the score for "9 to 5: The Musical, " a stage version of the 1980 comedy "Nine to Five, " a film she not only starred in but for which she also composed the award-winning title song.

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  • She works for Fuji she says (pointing to her name tag with a Fuji Logo).

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  • What she hopes for, she told me, is that she'll live two more years to see her eldest daughter finish school.

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  • She dreams of Prince Charmings but gets more of one than she bargains for when she becomes hostage to the buffalo-like Beast (the surprisingly orotund Robby Benson).

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  • However, Sherri Ann, who looks like a Barbie doll on steroids, gets more then she bargained for when she finds herself strangely attracted to the no-nonsense dog expert.

    CNN: graphic

  • In 2003, unable to find a bra that would give her the smooth line she longed for, she took scissors to a pair of control-top pantyhose--cutting out the gusset and legs to create a makeshift bra that wouldn't be lumpy from the back.

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  • But if she deserves credit for this, she deserves blame for a comparable failure: America's early underestimation of Boris Yeltsin.

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  • Privately, several of those who know her well say she is quite prepared for what she would see as her own martyrdom, and even talks of the need for martyrs to galvanise the cause of Afghan women.

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  • For years she had been a left-wing journalist, writing about race and sex discrimination for union news-sheets, and she had fearlessly gone on working after marriage until, on her second pregnancy, she had been fired in favour of a man.

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  • Her eyes red from crying, the child said she was sorry for what she had done.

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  • When she left a family she originally worked for, she violated the terms of her limited visa.

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