Word: alp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This true tale might seem to have all the narrative momentum of a lawnmower pulling the Cheops pyramid up an Alp. It does move, thanks to the script by John Roach and Mary Sweeney. It keeps finding new ways to make rural decency dramatic. But the soul of the film is in Farnsworth's eyes--great watery repositories of wisdom and regret. "The worst part of bein' old," he says, "is rememberin' when you was young." Alvin's tragic memories give perspective to the triumph of his trek, even as Farnsworth's weathered brilliance makes this movie...
...full of mistake.It points out destinations gone unvisited,contrasts the luxury hotel Nathan stayed in thefirst night to "cushion his arrival" with thehotel he recommended for users of the guide, anddescribes how, due to exhaustion, he stayed at theplush residence of the parents of Let's GoAssociate Editor Alp Aker '95, who designedNathan's itinerary...
...addition, editors said that Zevin'sportrayal of Nathan was inaccurate. Zevindescribes the R-W as flustered, emotionallyunstable (he shows an exhausted Nathan sending anote to Aker saying, "I hate Alp. I loathe Alp. Idetest Alp.") and something of a flake as well,pointing out numerous times the 'Harvard is hot'T-shirt Nathan wears and emphasizing a few of hisill-phrased quotes...
...week of visual superlatives, of images both awesome and horrifying. Astronomers said they had never seen anything like the fireworks produced when comet chunks, one of them roughly as big as an alp, crashed into the planet Jupiter. International relief workers said the same thing, only they were referring to the tide of refugees streaming out of Rwanda and into overnight cities of misery, disease and death. Certainly the millions of people who watched these two cataclysms unfold through news photographs and televised images had never seen anything like them either...
...would say even the Advocate is affected,"says current President Alp Aker '95. "Eventhough...there are some circles where the Advocateis very well read, there are some circles that arenot interested in what students are reading andwriting...