Books
Catherine McCormack, a course director at Sotheby’s, talks about her new book, “Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies.”
Nov. 18, 2021
Movies
Insistently eccentric and predictably coincidental, “Born Romantic” is one of those multi-character romantic carousels the British like to construct around any stray group of incredibly talented actors (“Wonderland” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral” being two examples).
Sept. 28, 2001
World & Nation
Catherine Dean May Bedell, 90, the first woman elected to Congress from Washington state, died Friday in Rancho Mirage, Calif., relatives said.
June 5, 2004
Sister Catherine Mulker- rin, who pressed Roman Catholic Church leaders in Boston to warn parishioners about priests who had been accused of sexually abusing children, has died.
May 21, 2008
Boston took a step toward integrating its public housing as two black families moved into a project in South Boston, a mostly white neighborhood that was torn by rioting during school desegregation in the mid-1970s.
July 12, 1988
The movie that arrives in theaters today under the title “Dangerous Beauty” has been on and off Warner Bros.’ release schedule for nearly a year, having tested and rejected such names as “Courtesan,” “The Honest Courtesan,” “Indiscretion” and “Venice.”
Feb. 20, 1998
When World War II broke out in 1939, Britain revved up its Women’s Land Army, founded in 1917 during World War I to recruit young women to take over the plows when farmers went off to the battlefields.
June 12, 1998
The presence of Vanessa Redgrave can’t compensate for the overly sentimental tale of intergenerational friendship and grief.
Feb. 1, 2002
The title of Anna Campion’s provocative and challenging “Loaded” refers both to the anxieties and uncertainties that can grip all Gen X-ers and to seven young people who gather in an old Georgian-style mansion in rural England to make their own horror picture video.
April 12, 1996