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Harvard's nominees to the All-Ivy team were: seniors Amy Belisle, Meg Berte, Julie Caldwell, Jennifer Garcia, Joe Hiffa, Steve Kelts, and Jeff Zimmerman and juniors Meredith Fitzgerald, Mark Cote, and Nick DuBois...
Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...
...years later, the now much older Arlis Sweeney still hears the crying of that baby in his nightmares. Arlis deals novelty vending machines in Texas, travelling from site to site in his pickup and sleeping in road-side motels. Fate brings him together wit a runaway housewife, Kay Davies (Meg Ryan), with whom he eventually falls in love and takes on as a travelling-companion and lover. It is only when he discovers that Kay is that baby whose family his father slaughtered so long ago that the entire gravitas of the situation propels the story crazily forward...
Quaid plays the role with an intense restraint and pained disposition which conveys the total psychological damage done to him by his father, and his own personal battle to distinguish himself from Roy's actions. Meg Ryan as Kay Davies is the focus of the father-son struggle, and remains a simplistic character completely oblivious to what is happening around her. Her sparkling wide-eyed stare and innocent dialogue provide an effective counterweight to the heavy dynamic of the plot which revolves around...
...critical acclaim she received for "Salaam Bombay"--a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival and a nomination for an Academy Award--Nair was approached by Hollywood producers who offered her money, but not to make the movies she wanted to make. "They send you the next sort of Meg Ryan comedy, and you can easily get $20 million...So if you demonstrate that you're not interested and that you're interested in something else, that is a struggle, big struggle." For "Mississippi Masala," Nair lost the backing of several financiers who didn't think movie could succeed without...