Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made it through your four years at Harvard, your Bachelor of Arts degree was waiting for you, as long as you met a few simple requirements. Although Harry Elkins Widener '07's ill-fated ride on the Titanic had not yet led his mother to urge the institution of the obligatory swimming test, degree candidate did have to fulfill the far simpler requirement of translating into Latin the Old and New Testaments--from their original Greek form...
ANDREW SULLIVAN plays Hamlet as a self-parody of the Perpetually Aspiring Male Actor (PAMA) of the 80's: if you're mad, shout; if you're sad, pout. Hamlet seems less like a boy obsessed with his father's death and mother's incest than some Valley Boy complaining about getting a Trans Am and not a Porsche for his 16th birthday. This Hamlet is hardly a great man-but a bratty boy only a child psychologist could love, for $100 an hour. What one imagines could be superlative acting seems almost pretentious, as If any five minute scene...
...perspective characteristic of an adolescent on a hormonal jag. Nonetheless, this flaw does not severely impede the novel, which becomes a wild string of events culminating in a furiously paced race through Mexico as Jem and Jezebel flee home and family for the jungle estate where Jem's mother was born...
...searched and handcuffed, then released after being held for less than an hour by Washington police. Like the more than 1,800 other protesters arrested at the embassy, she will not be prosecuted. Now a high school student in Atlanta, Amy had called home beforehand to inform her mother of her plans but not to seek parental consent. Human rights, after all, begin at home...
...preternaturally sweet disposition--and the grotesque face of Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion. Rocky's rare disease, craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, ended his life at 16, in 1978. And yet (of course) he was one of nature's noblemen, loved by puppies, blind girls and the motorcycle gang his mother Rusty hung out with. "I look weird," says Rocky (Eric Stoltz, in a wonderfully authentic performance), "but otherwise I'm real normal." Better than normal. He shines in school, plays Cupid between his mom (Cher) and a rowdy old friend (Sam Elliott), and falls into tender love with a City Lights sweetie...