Word: rachel
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...Well, I had a feeling when I took the part that something like that would happen, that Sarah Palin would run and her teen would be pregnant, and so I’m glad that it finally was fulfilled.”—Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...might have been a trite but heart-warming tale of one man’s success against all odds. However, because of the film’s botched attempt at gravity and intellectual debate, it fails at achieving even that level of mediocrity. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...Demme's new film, Rachel Getting Married, is arguably an attempt on the part of the director to wend his way back to his roots. It's a small-scale comedy, written by Jenny Lumet (daughter of Sidney Lumet), in which a smugly PC family gathers to celebrate the wedding of their perfectly beautiful, perfectly balanced daughter, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. This is not just a wedding, however; it is also a sociopolitical statement, for the groom is a handsome black man, scion of a family that is far more conventional and bourgeois than the bride's family, and especially...
...Rachel Getting Married Directed by Jonathan Demme; rated R; out now Kym (Anne Hathaway) gets sprung from an asylum just in time to upset her large family at the multicultural wedding of her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). This haphazard drama offers insights into the tensions and tendernesses of any wedding weekend, though it sometimes seems as long as one. Bill Irwin is a dear as the girls' father...
...Jania’s losses were the first of their collegiate careers. In a lower flight, freshman Louise Laciny won 6-1, 7-5 in her first match, only to fall 3-6, 6-3, 10-3 in the quarterfinals. Freshman Caroline Davis, sophomore Margarita Krivitski, and co-captain Rachel Gottlieb all failed to win a match over the weekend. Despite the losses, the young Harvard players impressed Crimson coach Traci Green. “They showed all kinds of talent,” Green said. “They did a great job of fighting. Now it?...