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...shop for and give a birthday party for her daughter Clara, who is turning 6, care for her toddler (who, Eliza should be grateful, is always nodding off into a convenient nap) and also find the time to pen an essay about "What Motherhood Means to Me" for a contest she would like to win. The piece only has to be 500 words long, although I have a hunch Eliza could sum it up in nine: "Schlepping, schmatas and not nearly enough sex or showering." The prize is a regular column in the fictional Lunchbox magazine, paying...
...There's no self-doubt when it comes to the contest; she assumes that if she applies herself even a little, she'll win. She taps away at the keyboard for a few minutes, then heads off to a sample sale with Sheila. (Driver, blooming with her own pregnancy at the time of filming, is the best thing in Motherhood; she's wry and funny and real.) I was too busy eying the racks to see if the legendary New York sample sales are really all that to notice that this marked a serious lapse in Eliza's work ethic...
...feels genuine and true about Thurman’s character is lacking in the film’s narrative. Eliza’s day begins ordinarily enough as she buys groceries and party decorations for her daughter’s sixth birthday party, later deciding to enter a writing contest in which she must describe the essence of motherhood in 500 words or less. As the day wears on, however, it feels as though Dieckmann piles a whole life’s worth of unfortunate events into the few hours she has. Soon enough Eliza has had a minor breakdown...
John Lavine, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, says the students should be considered reporters and therefore be protected by a 1982 Illinois shield law that protects reporters from having to divulge information to officials, absent a compelling public interest. He says the school will vehemently contest the prosecutor's request in court and will only turn over on-the-record documents and statements - not background information or any private grades or grading criteria. "It's simply beyond belief that [prosecutors] who are committed to courts being open and understood by the public would want to stop anyone from...
Later that afternoon, the Plano, Texas native won another close contest against Cornell’s Jeff Fife, 7-6(13), 6-4. That earned him a chance to play in the quarterfinals—the only Harvard player to make it that...