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...anything less than perfect?" Robin looks disarmingly like Mia Farrow, with wavy hair and a disheveled Cantabrigian fashion sense. Things aren't looking too good for Robin; she has just been dumped (not for her daughter, though), and she can't quite seem to figure out how to attend cocktail parties and remain sober for more than ten minutes. She visits a professional whore (Bebe Neuwirth) for sexual advice. This unravels into a tasteless scene of two grown women simulating oral sex on bananas, the new Mia Farrow predictably performing less than swimmingly. Later on she remarks that...

Author: By Lauren M. Mechling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...metamorphosis that transformed his healthy, young body into a skeleton too sick to get out of bed, Sullivan was slowly losing the battle. In 1996, just when it seemed that he was running out of defenses in the fight against AIDS, Sullivan acquired a powerful new arsenal: a cocktail of drugs called protease inhibitors. All of a sudden, Sullivan--and thousands of other AIDS sufferers--had a reprieve on what seemed like an inflexible death sentence...

Author: By Joanne Sitarski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Waiting for Death, Learning to Live | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

...plates are pretty and the quality is good. And maybe I'd like to have really nice plates in my own home--no mismatched assortment, but a heavy bone-white 12-person set. We are taught here to become accustomed to a way of life. Cocktail parties, teas and formal dinners seem standard. Maybe I've chosen a certain social circle and I can't point fingers at Harvard when I've willingly involved myself in it, but the very availability of such a life is fairly amazing. My first-year photos are of boys in tuxedos, girls in full...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Yearning for a Thrifty Life | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Candidates said helping with a campaign is not just a way to be politically active, but also a social experience. Some have held meetings, pizza study breaks, even a cocktail party with the Opportunes. Stone and Blake hosted a brunch for their campaign team, while Seton and Redmond planned pizza meetings...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Following the Undergraduate Council Campaign Trail | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...people having cocktail parties and I say 'What are you doing?'" said Swasey, who is running with vice presidential candidate Jared S. White '00. "I have no great big staff; no war room. This is a campaign for the U.C., not for Congress...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Undergraduate Council Candidates Kick Off Campaigns For Top Seats | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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