Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday Outing, by Gloria Jean Pinkney; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Dial; $14.99), tells of Ernestine, a young African-American girl who lives in Philadelphia and hopes to save up money for a big adventure: a train ride to visit relatives in North Carolina. The dialogue is shrewdly written; Aunt Odessa, up from the South, talks country ("You wasn't worried now, was you?"), though Ernestine's parents speak Standard English. The beautiful drawings show a warm, believable middle-class black family of about 40 years...
...deserves a chronicler as cynical as this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
...also elected Merry Jean Chan '97 as its Harvard Foundation representative...
...friend and mentor, Jean-Louis Trintignant is brilliant. This hardened old judge slowly gains our sympathy. This cold demeanor was used equally well by Trintingant in "The Conformist," but here he is forced to open up. The confession of his mistakes is one of the truly touching moments of the film...
Student leaders were also on the panel: Merry Jean Chan '97 and Sanjay Shetty '96, co-chairs of the Harvard Foundation student advisory committee; Kristen M. Clarke '97, president of the Black Students Association; and Peter C. Hanson '95, who is writing his senior thesis about the United Nations' success in building democratic institutions in wartorn nations as a final stage of peacekeeping...