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Wilson, who has participated in the Radcliffe Mentor Program as a mentor for several years, says structured programs make it easier for both students and senior mentor partners to define their relationship in order for the student to gain maximum benefit...
Hoffman is superb, underplaying even the punchiest lines for maximum effect. A spotlight line such as, "You're the best show in town, Sam," might have amounted to little more than a melodramatic leer in the hands of a less talented actor; Hoffman delivers it quietly, almost swallowing the words, and the effect is chilling. To its own detriment, the script fails to learn from his example. Writers Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, journalists themselves, cannot resist hammering home their message. "I don't want to cross the line," Brackett tells his boss; Lou, at the beginning of the movie...
...along incrementally until you reach a critical maximum, and then it explodes," he said. "Once we hit this critical max it seems like nothing's happening and then everything happens...
Pacheco said police arrived on the scene around 12:15 a.m. When they got there, he said, they noticed that the number of people in the dining hall far exceeded its legal maximum capacity of 350, and began trying to evacuate the room for fire hazard reasons...
...keyword search on HOLLIS for scores with the word "marimba" turns up only 45 entries, the oldest of which was written in the 60s. An identical search for scores with the word "viola" exceeds the maximum number of items the system can display. Certainly this seems an injustice. The only excuse is the youth of the marimba, first manufactured in its modern form in 1910. The viola, comparatively, seems to have been around forever. Mary E. Kissel's solo marimba recital, heralded as the first solo marimba recital ever given in Adams House, managed to succeed in making a contemporary...