Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73, director of undergraduate admissions who works in Byerly Hall, said she felt the attack justified what she said was a "significant" expense to hire a security guard for the building...
...hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being and resolution when they managed to grant forgiveness. "If you are willing to exert the effort it takes to be forgiving, there are benefits both emotionally and physically," she concludes...
...film is also exciting as emotional autobiography--a declaration of independence from an artist who felt trapped straddling East and West. "Working with her," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Chen as the spoiled royal wife in the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, "I had the feeling she was somehow in exile, not always comfortable. So I love the idea that my own Empress in exile went back to China as a film director...
...first-time director, Chen says, "at times I felt like the captain of the Titanic." Chen may also have felt like Xiu Xiu: both abandoned by the government hierarchy and subject to its whim. "Every day we worried that our equipment would be confiscated and that the film negative would never get out of China. But fortunately nobody came to look for us." Unlike Xiu Xiu, of course, Chen chose these conditions on her own terms: she sent herself down. "Hardship is the romantic part of filmmaking," she says. "You endure for a few months, then you go home...
...asked Bill Clinton if he'd ever been in a fistfight. Yes, the President said, he'd been in a scrap in the eighth grade, when he was being hassled by a neighborhood bully who was smaller than Clinton but had been after him for some time. Clinton felt sorry for the boy--he had problems at home. Clinton didn't want to hit him and tried to ignore him. But one day, after being bothered by the boy for half an hour, Clinton hauled off and smacked...