Sentences with phrase «city girl whose»

Ms. Sevigny, who was so riveting in «Kids» as a New York City girl whose deflowering leaves her H.I.V. - positive, is even more entrancing in «Trees Lounge,» in which she plays a smaller role.

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HARD TO MISREAD THIS MESSAGE — DeVos, in first visit to NYC schools, picks yeshivas, by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah, Eliza Shapiro and Caitlin Emma: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came to New York City, whose 1.1 million public school children represent the country's largest school district, and walked into an all - girls private yeshiva in Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

As you might recognize already, we shot at the Ludlow Hotel, one of my absolute favorite hotels here in the city, and it served as the perfect backdrop for a girl, on the go, running through late evenings and early mornings, from one party to the next — throwing on her earrings as she dashes out the door, her eyes fixed on the next cab whose headlights are blaring down the street.

The scientist is Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt in an unfortunate bow tie), whose love affair with a manic pixie dream girl (Astrid Bergès - Frisbey) begins in a strangely dreamy fashion when he spots her masked on a New York City balcony, showcasing her dazzling multicolored eyes.

Adam Shankman's new film / musical Rock of Ages tells the story of a small town girl Sherrie (Julianne Hough) and a city boy Drew (Diego Boneta), whose separate journeys to chase their dreams of stardom bring them together on the Sunset Strip.

Alan Arkin, however, is not a bad fit as their father, whose attraction to Amanda Seyfried's lonely diner waitress — who is 52 years younger than her co-star — is supposed to be poignant when it really is downright creepy, even if the mention of Charlie Chaplin's attraction to a waifish blind girl in «City Lights» supposedly makes it OK.

Directed by first - time filmmaker Stuart Blumberg — whose previous work includes scripting the slapdash romantic comedy, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR and Lisa Cholodenko's superb artificial insemination dramedy, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT — the film has a particularly adroit and wholly believable stance depicting a contemporary society governed by the taken mantra that sex sells, especially within the hub of cultural metropolis that is New York City.

It rarely leaves the inner - city community center in which most of the action takes place or the side of the 11 - year - old girl whose story it tells.

And relative newcomer Eric Ruffin is quietly transfixing in «The Transfiguration,» portraying a withdrawn inner - city teen whose obsession with vampire lore draws him nearer to a neighbor girl and further away from reality.

Lauren Beukes made waves last year with The Shining Girls, and she's back with another deliciously twisted and spine - tingling crime novel, Broken Monsters, which opens with a bizarre and disturbing crime scene in inner - city Detroit: a dead 11 - year - old boy whose lower half has been replaced by that of a deer.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

One of the favorite standout animal films at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals in 2015 was «White God», a Hungarian film centered on the story of a 13 - year old girl whose father sets her dog free into the streets, where he must learn to live among the packs of wild dogs who roam the city, as he tries to find his way back to his best friend.

Now perhaps this is just the musings of a city girl (read: someone whose food is not imperiled by hungry foxes and doesn't rely on the fur trade), but it's hard to believe that in some parts of the world, these wonderful creatures have nearly been hunted into extinction.

She was also a founding member of the Tuesday Girls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for women executives and business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city gGirls whose mission was to provide networking opportunities for women executives and business owners; was a partner in Accelerent, a national platform for mid-sized corporate businesses in the Mid-Atlantic; served as a corporate mentor for the COMMIT Foundation, whose mission is to mentor mid-level female veterans to reach their full potential personally and professionally; and served for nine years on the board of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland with a focus on their capital campaign to expand services for inner - city girlsgirls.