Word: award
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second year, the College's Women's Leadership Award again attracted a large and talented pool of applicants. From the many, Sarah L. Russell '99 emerged as this year's winner...
...great person--she's wonderfully spirited, dedicated and personable," said Karen E. Avery '87, assistant dean of the College, who served on the award's selection committee. "It was very competitive and we had some terrific, terrific candidates, but Sarah's application just stood...
...other two finalists for the award are Brown's Ali Brewer and New Hampshire's Nicki Luongo...
...have we regressed to treating homosexuality on stage with even less acceptance than during Elizabethan England? Protesters will clamor that surely we were able to make at least some cinematic progress with 1993's Academy-award winning film "Philadelphia." But this movie's success only illustrated that audiences across the nation were finally prepared to sympathize with a dying homosexual AIDS patient. Love had not yet entered the picture. And now, almost a decade later, screenwriters alter history and studios still shy away from a homosexual love story because of fear that it won't sell...
...Screenwriters with that Academy Award glean in their eye must create films to which the majority of American audiences can relate. And more Americans can relate to Shakespeare's pursuit of Viola de Lesseps rather than perhaps the pursuit of Christopher Marlow, Shakespeare's authentic friend and literary rival. Norman and Stoppard wrote the movie with the intention that audience members would either trudge out of the theater longing for some Romeo to climb through their bedroom window at night, or with patrons holding on a bit tighter to the Romeo they had already won over. Had the plot focused...