Word: alden
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...novel stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler, the middle-aged London Times foreign correspondent covering the French-Indochina war in Saigon. Fowler, who lives in Vietnam with a beautiful ex-taxi dancer named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), finds this lifestyle imperiled when a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong and tries to wrest her away. As the eponymous “quiet American,” Pyle is rather the opposite—his naive idealism and fervent democratic bent wreak havoc in issues apart from the cynical Fowler?...
...instruction. Phillip Noyce's version of the 1955 Graham Greene novel The Quiet American deals with that time in the '50s when French colonialists were stumbling out of Vietnam and U.S. "advisers" were tiptoeing in. Despite the mounting carnage, Americans held fast to what they considered their ideals. As Alden Pyle, Greene's title character, says of one fatal explosion on a Saigon street: "What happened in the Square today makes me sick. But in the long run I'm gonna save lives...
Desserts in my family have always been a reward or an unexpected present, reserved for occasional weekend nights and special celebrations. For my First Communion I had a decadent chocolate cake from Alden Merrill. The physical bread meant little to me, the sour-smelling wine even less, when compared to the stunningly sweet pastel packaged neatly in a cardboard box and stored safely in the basement refrigerator. I can still picture myself carving into the smooth fudge that formed the outer layer of the cake. The contrast between my crisp white dress, with its eyelet detail and simple lace ribbons...
...fairness, it should be noted that director Phil Alden Robinson's movie (written by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne) was shot before 9/11. You also have to observe that with some 27,000 nuclear devices floating around the world the possibility of one of them falling into the hands of a rogue group - in this instance Neo-Nazis - is not entirely improbable. Nor is the possibility that they might detonate the thing in the U.S. (in Baltimore, at a Super Bowl game), hoping that we'll blame the Russians and get World War III up and running, dreaming, too, that...
...meeting where Wetlaufer was demoted, two of the editors walked out, saying they thought she should quit outright—and then, in protest, Harris Collingwood ’77 and Alden Hayashi resigned their HBR posts...