Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Annabella Sciorra has no room to do mediocre work, for her inscrutable character dooms any possibility for a good performance from the start. In various scenes she is a beautiful romantic, a warm mother, an edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her various incarnations seem remotely connected to another, and in each she is given an outlandish haircut that does her acting for her. When she has the severe, cropped look of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, you know that tragedy is imminent. We never know why Robin Williams would risk hell...
When I learned about the Senior Gift Fund during my first year, I was greatly irritated. "My mother pays an obscene amount of money for me to come here," I squawked. "Now they want me to pay even more?" I angrily vowed that I would not donate a single dollar to the College when the time came to give. Simply attending Harvard-Radcliffe was expensive enough. Besides, my measly little contribution would never be missed next to the more generous gifts of more prosperous students...
...looking back at the three years I've spent here, the nostalgia and rose-colored contact lenses of time are taking over. The Harvard-Radcliffe experience will leave my mother and me in debt for years to come. But as many of us seniors are starting to realize, the benefits that will come with the degree are priceless. From (hopefully) job offers to connections, lifelong friendships to learning in and outside of classes, the College has given all of us a great deal. The least we can do, it now seems, is offer up a few dollars of our graduation...
...confession box speeches, she may as well do some confessing and repentance. "I was silly. I wanted to see if I could get the President. Immature, power trip, ego boost. I have sinned and I apologize to the nation, to Mr. President and his family, and to my mother for making her keep my dirty dress." Next in line is Kenny Starr and then all pollsters and pundits, waiting to purge their souls...
...Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...