Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With such a scene as this, where one character does virtually all the talking, it is an all-or-nothing venture. Mackay must be convincing and endearing, conversational yet aptly reflecting all the emotions conjured by her racing memory. Each thought must appear fresh as if it had just been devised, rather than recited from a lengthy monologue. It is a difficult task, but Mackay succeeds brilliantly...
Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...
Harvard enters tomorrow's game fresh off a week of rest, having last played on October 2nd at Pennsylvania. The Crimson (2-4-1,1-2 Ivy), who beat the Quakers 2-0 for their first Ivy League win, is riding a two game winning streak after going winless in its first five games...
...hedefines the terms, he may have no desire to givethe critic anything to find. There is certainlynothing wrong with a poetry of the enjoyable,particularly given that Koch's stance is a rareone in contemporary American literature. Despitetheir flaws, his poems and his attitude can feellike a breath of fresh air, especially when theyare presented as winningly as he presented themduring his visit...
...seemingly innocuous exercise, right? But there was a problem. Fresh from drafting resumes and graduate school applications, plenty of students in the Class of 1999 were less than conservative in checking things off. Lines like the following floated around the Yearbook Office: "So I was never actually onthe Undergraduate Council, but I did run for office a few years ago, even though I lost." "Okay, so I never actually wentto a Model U.N. meeting after Orientation Week, but I've been getting their e-mails for the past three years." "Well, I never actually didanything for House Committee...