Word: gail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken a while to personify her perfectly on film, but here she is at last -- the ideal woman of feminist song, story and legend. Her name is Gail, she is played -- make that attractively humanized -- by the admirable Meryl Streep in The River Wild, and if men have any sense left, they will add a few bass notes to the trilling chorus of approval that is soon likely to rise from the soprano section when this otherwise rather routine movie opens...
...Gail teaches at a school for the deaf. She is a firm but good-humored mom. Her tolerance for the workaholic ways of her husband Tom (David Strathairn) is wearing thin, but she's laboring earnestly on the marriage. She is also an expert whitewater rafter, and has arranged a trip down a challenging, unnamed western river with Tom, their son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and the family dog (boy and dog are also estranged from Tom). The family that gets sprayed together stays together -- or so Gail hopes...
...Gail L. Epstein, the director of the College's public service programs, said she is suspicious of that claim. Epstein has written a memo to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 protesting the report's recommendations, and she said yesterday that Maull's letter to The Crimson contradicts the administrator's earlier statements...
...Maull's letter is] encouraging, but, as Gail has mentioned, an FTE can be construed in a variety of ways," Johnson said...
COPY CHIEF: Susan L. Blair PRODUCTION MANAGER: Gail Music...