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A Weird Woman in a Weird City
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Leyla Erbil's Istanbul
What does it mean to be a modern woman in Istanbul? Is it cause for an arduous confrontation between socially enforced stereotypes? Does it challenge culturally enshrined opposites between the domestic and the public? Or, is it a means of liberation from the bondage of the natural and the familial? While all difficult and pressing questions, the Turkish writer Leyla Erbil poses them in her novel A Weird Woman [1971], using the protagonist's perception of the city...
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The Washington Times
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Anne Gwynne
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Anne Gwynne, 84 Star of sci-fi, horror films Wednesday, April 9, 2003 Los Angeles -- Actress Anne Gwynne, who starred in sci-fi and horror films including the serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" and "Black Friday," has died of a stroke after surgery. She was 84. Gwynne, who died March 31,
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