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This wretched excess usually backfires. The Cleary family is a perfect example. The crazy grandmother with the potty-mouth—played by the rapping grandma from the “Wedding Singer” (Ellen Albertini Dow)—is hilarious. However, the crazy-seductress mother (“Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman”’s Jane Seymour) playing sexy in a shot-by-shot homage to The Graduate is only amusing in its absurdity. Add to this the crazy-seducer homosexual brother and the already insane Gloria and Sack, and the fun begins...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Crashers’ Give Goofy Titillation | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...great for solitary pursuits, composing Powerpoint presentations or writing. But as long as co-workers need to brainstorm, bat around ideas and just plain gossip, they will always return to the water cooler, choosing a little face-to-face time over e-mail and the Web. Says Christine Albertini, vice president of advanced concepts at office-furniture maker Steelcase: "The basic nature of work is social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Our Offices Look Like? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...everyone involved in the fractious debate has political ambitions. Jorge Albertini, 26, an architect who emigrated in 1980, believes his countrymen have lost the will to help themselves. "The majority of people there are used to the system taking care of them. Now that it's not, they're so concerned with the lack of food, electricity and gas that they've forgotten about the . greater goal of getting rid of Castro." Albertini wants the U.N. to impose a total blockade on Cuba, even if such a move causes heightened hardship for residents, including his grandmother and aunt. "A blockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splits in the Family | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Albertini took one glance aloft, pulled out his 50? ticket, and discovered that he had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pie in the Sky | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Others in the tight Ibiza circle-a raffish collection reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's Beat the Devil-added color to the story. There was Elmyr de Hory, the slightly flamboyant art forger who is the principal figure in Irvine's book Fake! Another good friend is Gerry Albertini, an idle millionaire with dual British-American citizenship who, apparently as a favor, once kept Irving's Hughes manuscript in his safe on the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Secret Life of Clifford Irving | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

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