Word: nelsons
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When making your reservation, ask for a table in the atrium, a space that soars up eight floors. Along one wall is a gentle, 20-ft.-high waterfall. Mobiles that suggest flying kites hang from the ceiling. A good conversation starter: Nelson Rockefeller owned the townhouse, and it was here in 1979 that he suffered a fatal heart attack in the arms of his mistress...
Four students also received honorable mentions: Timothy K. Ruttan ’02, Kathleen L. Guico ’02, Margaret A. Nelson ’02 and Joshua E. Cogswell...
STARRING: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer DIRECTOR: Jessie Nelson...
...director of this noble weepie, Nelson so overuses visual tricks--zooms, zip pans and multiple perspectives on a simple scene--that she turns the viewer into an exasperated parent; this is a directorial style in need of a spanking. As co-writer, she falls into the truckling-and-treacling mode evident in her script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film...
...nationhood. Many venerated him as a mahatma (great soul). His protests in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant India independence and Gandhi would achieve worldwide status as a moral icon. His example lives on in nonviolent activists of our day such as Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela...