Though Randall becomes more formidable as the movie progresses, Nicholson sustains his low-key, self-effacing style, and somehow the more he keeps his natural dynamism in check, the more his charisma increases ... As the world-weary Laura, Pfeiffer doesn't have nearly as much to work with, and so, ultimately, she lends more of her beauty than she does her talent.

Laura Keene brushed by him with the glass of water.

Laura did not answer him.

Ibsen wrote A Doll's House at the point when Laura Kieler had been committed to the asylum, and the fate of this friend of the family shook him deeply, perhaps also because Laura had asked him to intervene at a crucial point in the scandal, which he did not feel able or willing to do.

On April 6, 1327, Good Friday, after Petrarch gave up his vocation as a priest, the sight of a woman called " Laura " in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the Rime sparse (" Scattered rhymes ").

As the story unfolds, the object of his affection, Laura Lorenzini, engaged to him, breaks off her engagement, and ends up marrying a ' better suitor '.

Her marriage to Edward Douglas in the 1910s was brief, and ended with him deserting her shortly before their daughter, Laura, was born.

* April 6 – Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion.

— Laura Bon at Stupinigi, who bore him two children:

Laura Jesson ( Johnson ), a suburban housewife in a dull but affectionate marriage, tells her story in the first person while at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him.

The poem that Fred asks Laura to assist him with is by John Keats: " When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be ".

Through the testimony of her friends, and the reading of her letters and diary, McPherson comes to know Laura and slowly becomes obsessed with her, so much so Lydecker accuses him of falling in love with the dead woman.

Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.

In retaliation, he announced Preminger could produce but not direct Laura and assigned him to helm In the Meantime, Darling instead.

In 1327, according to the poet, the sight of a woman called Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the Rime sparse (" Scattered rhymes ").

In response, Sarah casts a love spell upon him, while Rochelle casts a revenge spell on a hateful racist bully Laura Lizzie ( Christine Taylor ), Bonnie casts a spell for beauty, and Nancy for power.

Laura and Neil, who think he has kidnapped him against his will, call the police, who start a massive investigation.

The ELFS then fly him and Charlie home to Laura and Neil, to whom Scott / Santa gives the presents they always wanted since childhood but never got.

Laura, finally realizing that Scott really is the new Santa, tosses the custody papers into the fireplace and welcomes him to visit Charlie any time that he desires.

Hopeful that he will soon see Laura again, Booth runs to the speakeasy, and the owner, Freddie, lets him in.

They assume he's joking and insist on partying, and when Booth professes his love, Laura casually dismisses him and bursts out laughing.

Webb was in his mid-fifties when actor / director Otto Preminger chose him over the objections of 20th Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck to play the elegant but evil radio columnist Waldo Lydecker, who is obsessed with Gene Tierney's character in the 1944 film noir Laura.

Rob Fleming is a London record store owner in his mid-thirties whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him.

12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.

Kemp prepared an open letter to Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and other conservative talk show hosts on McCain's behalf to quell their dissatisfactions.

According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher had Laura change her age in the book because it seemed unrealistic for a three-year-old to have specific memories such as she wrote about.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph is a letter he wrote on 18 July 1893 to Laura Kains while he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

Laura writes Luke a letter, which Scott finds on the day of Luke's marriage to Jennifer.

As she lies dying, Kinney tells X-23 that her name is Laura and that she loves her, and hands her the letter and pictures of Charles Xavier, Wolverine, and the Xavier Institute.

Sarah's final thoughts were left in a letter to Laura detailing her guilt, that she was Laura's mother, and the realization that she had come to love her.

In 2005, First Lady Laura Bush invited Olds to the National Book Festival in Washington, D. C. Olds responded, declining the invitation in an open letter published in the October 10th, 2005 issue of The Nation.

In the first part, distant cousins Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are happily engaged to be married when they receive an anonymous letter claiming that someone is " sucking up " to their wealthy aunt, Laura Welman, from whom Elinor and Roddy expect to inherit a sizeable fortune.

Laura is a good role for Miss Resnik, and she gave it force, dramatic color and passion.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

When she is six years old, Laura has a vision of a beautiful visitor in her bedchamber.

She arranges to leave her daughter with Laura and her father until she can return in three months.

She goes by the name of Laura, and Integra asks her if she is the vampire Carmilla.

* In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ( portrayed by Laura Dern ) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says " was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people.

Though during her years in the Governor's Mansion, she did not hold a single formal event, Laura worked for women's and children's causes including health, education, and literacy.

* In The X-Files season 6, episode 7, first aired January 3, 1999, Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) tells Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) that she believes a woman, Laura, played by Lisa Jane Persky, had taken a Mandrake medication to give herself a self-abortion to get rid of her " devil baby "

Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( 1970 – 77 ), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke's wife ) on The Dick Van Dyke Show ( 1961 – 66 ).

When she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie, she said, " I know this will never happen again.

There is little definite information in Petrarch's work concerning Laura, except that she is lovely to look at, fair-haired, with a modest, dignified bearing.

While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.

Turin, Einaudi, 1964 ) has spoken of linguistic indeterminacy – Petrarch never rises above the " bel pié " ( her lovely foot ): Laura is too holy to be painted ; she is an awe-inspiring goddess.

While practicing for the show, stuntwoman Laura " Dinky " Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped headfirst from the top level of the Superdome and smashed head-first into the concrete-based playing field, causing her death.

Analyst Laura Ries, of marketing strategy firm Ries & Ries, stated she believed Taco Bell's latest response was a mistake.

British singer-songwriter Laura Critchley commented that she had sung vocals for three songs, and said that it would not be released until 2009.

In 1986 Michael Lush died of multiple injuries after bungee jumping for a stunt on a BBC television programme and in 1997, Laura Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped from the top level of the Louisiana Superdome and collided head-first into the concrete-based playing field.

His mother, Laura Beatrice Berton ( née Thompson ) was a school teacher in Toronto until she was offered a job as a teacher in Dawson City at the age of 29 in 1907.

Laura Beatrice Berton's autobiography of life in the Yukon entitled I Married the Klondike was published in her later years and gave her, what her son Pierre describes as ' a modicum of fame, which she thoroughly enjoyed.

In the 1970s, she starred in such films as Three Days of the Condor, Little Big Man, Chinatown, The Three / Four Musketeers, Eyes of Laura Mars, and Network, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress as the scheming TV executive Diana Christensen.

However, Laura in her narration stresses that what holds her back is her horror at the thought of betraying her husband and her settled moral values, tempted though she is by the force of a love affair.

McPherson concludes that she, Diane Redfern, was the victim, brought there by Carpenter, while Laura was away in the country.