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While tweeds and topsiders, lime green weaters and vibrant pink turtlenecks cruised the banks and bridges of the Charles shouting encouraging crew wittisms to the bypassing rowers, "Row rapidly Radcliffe" the coxswains and oarsmen seemingly inspired by their driving counterparts of Mem Drive put on a bumperboat steering display which would make the most seafaring gent swear off the waters for life...
...shrill at the beginning, then too eager for the fine assortment of humiliations Gennarino has to offer. There is the sense that Wertmuller herself almost revels in the punishment Gennarino deals out; certainly the sequences of Raffaella's subjugation are among the most strident and unpleasant in recent mem ory. It is discomfiting, especially in a movie made by a woman, to see the ma jor female character turned into such an abject creature. The fact that Actors Melato and Giannini, who starred together as well in Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, are so wonderfully skillful...
They wanted my blood. Or so the kid who lives above me had said when he asked me to participate in the Red Cross Blood Drive. I imagined that I could feel the stuff sloshing around in my veins as I stepped up to the registration desk in Mem Hall...
Looking around me. I noticed for the first time that Mem Hall had been transformed into a Barnum and Bailey-like infiemary. Bunches of helium filled balloons dotted the area, occasionally rising to the dusty rafters. This festive touch was offset by the green operating tables full of donors which took up half the building's floor space...
...next thing I knew. I was stretched out on one of those green tables, the precious life-fluid running from my vein to a bag out of my sight. Lying on my back. I could view the Mem Hall stained glass windows in all their exquisite detail, a treat that students gazing down at blue exam books rarely enjoy. Dante, Chaucer and Blake smiled benignly upon the whole affair...