Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nadja B. Gould, who has been a clinical social worker at UHS for fifteen years, talked about her work helping women who seek pregnancy counselling at a Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Choice meeting last night in the Ticknor Lounge...
...Many pregnant students seem pressured to have an abortion," Gould said. "We're here to help women choose what and how they want to do, not to recommend one thing or the other...
...Gould said she is happy to see a decrease in the amount of unplanned pregnancies at Harvard. Last year 25 undergraduates--down from 50 eight years ago--became pregnant and had abortions, she said. Of the 115 faculty, staff and students seen at UHS last year, approximately 95 percent chose to terminate their pregnancy, she said...
Speed the Plow depicts a day in the life of a Hollywood studio. The recently promoted and gut-wringingly smug Bobby Gould selects the scripts which the studio makes into movies. Ambitious and unthinking, he is on the verge of green-lighting yet another crass but lucrative crowd-puller. But he is thrown into a quandary by his insinuating temp's efforts to promote a pretentious novel about radioactivity. Much soul-searching ensues as Charlie Fox, a subordinate, and Karen, the secretary, wrestle for control of Gould's mind and agenda...
Mamet writes his characters larger than life. Unless an actor flings himself into his role whole-heartedly, the portrayal becomes self-conscious. Aaron Zelman succumbs to this danger in his portrayal of Gould. As the play progresses, he adapts his style admirably to the ups and downs of his character's troubled psyche, playing the sobered, morning-after Gould with dull compassion. But, especially in Gould's brasher incarnations, Zelman never seems quite convinced that he can carry off such an outrageous script. He knows that we know that he's acting...