Word: mcgrath
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...from the Dickens novel, Nicholas Nickleby features a diverse cast that includes The Birdcage’s Nathan Lane and The Princess Diaries’ Anne Hathaway. In transferring to the screen the story of a fatherless young man seeking to reunite with his remaining family members, director Douglas McGrath trims subplots and peripheral characters. The result is a briskly paced film with a contagious enthusiasm for its subject. Nicholas Nickleby screens...
...challenge writer-director Douglas McGrath is very largely up to in Nicholas Nickleby. Now and then his film feels a bit rushed and breathless, but mostly you sink gratefully into its handsomely staged plenitude...
...McGrath stays focused on the heart of his story, the conflict between perfect good and perfect evil, making for a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen: the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions...
Annie’s mother, Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath-Lewis ’70-’73 also a Republican, joined her for the event...
...could do more to recruit qualified low-income candidates. We would expect smaller numbers at Harvard even with optimal recruiting, because educational and cultural barriers prevent some from receiving the academic preparation necessary to compete in the larger applicant pool. When I talked to her, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 rightfully rejected any romantic suggestion that admissions should accept students not fully prepared for the academic challenges they would face here...