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...mixture of acute agony and perfect adoration in Matthew's terse Glaswegian tones perfectly conveys the weight of his loss. In complete contrast to Charles' improbable absorption with Carrie, Matthew's grif at the loss of Gareth is utterly believable because all along we have seen Gareth and Matthew as complete individuals bonded by friendship and love. Unfortunately, this reviewer found herself thinking that this subplot deserved its own movie and wishing that she had gone to see that one instead...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: 'Four Weddings' Is Not Worth Celebrating | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...your article on transfer students (The Crimson, April 9), you quote a student, Griffith Marton, saying that he found a reluctance among his fellow students and staff to discuss such questions as the purpose of East Asian studies. As Grif Marton knows, there has been a special weekly colloquium in East Asian Studies to discuss precisely such questions. Mr. Marton has not once attended. This is, of course, his privilege, but I marvel that a student could say that because he does not participate, it does not exist. Ezra F. Vegel, Chairman Committee on the A.B. Degree In East Asian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EXISTENTIAL RELUCTANCE | 4/25/1975 | See Source »

...Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer. Togetherness swiftly degenerates into apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How Sweet It Is! | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...addition to the glittering Senate victories of Chuck Percy and Bob Grif fin, the voters re-elected a phalanx of Republican regulars: Iowa's Jack Miller, Kansas' James B. Pearson, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Nebraska's Carl Curtis. Indeed, it was a boomerang attempt by Lyndon Johnson to dislodge Curtis that led to one of six gubernatorial victories in the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Midwest: Heartland Recaptured | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...middle of the third period right wing Akin Adewole broke past a Yale defender and centered a high soft pass to center forward Jim Saltonstall at the edge of the penalty zone. Salty eluded Eli center half Grif Okie, who had shadowed him all afternoon, and headed the ball out of the hands of charging Yale goalie Denny Gaulladet and it bounded slowly into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Wins, 3-2, On Last-Second Score | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

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