Word: conways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quantities of coke that the narrator, better known as "you," consumes through the fast-turning pages. No one in the story works on Wall Street. No one has a VCR, drives a BMW or listens to CDs. In fact, the protagonist, who in the film has a name, Jamie Conway, works as a fact-checker at a magazine modeled on the stodgy old New Yorker. Even his best buddy, the flashy Tad Allagash (Kiefer Sutherland), is in advertising--not investment banking--although he certainly does come off as a New York nemesis, lost in the party world of models...
...only complaint I have [about the Conants] is that people applying for the fellowship have to get a sabbatical to go and that takes away from other teachers who want sabbaticals," Conway says...
...What's really nice is that it's given me a chance to reflect on my own teaching," says Conway, who taught at the Tobin Middle School in Cambridge and in various alternative education programs in the city before going on sabbatical this year...
...native of Cambridge I would never have chosen Harvard. If not for the fellowship, I would never have considered going back to school," Conway says...
...Conway says that at one point, school authorities wanted to give her a job in Belmont. "I said, 'I'm not interested.' I think urban kids are really what's going on. They're the ones who need support. There are needy children in the suburbs, but they have other support systems," she says...