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...Irish laughter to go with his wastrel ways. But the film has the vitality of remembered truth. Is Frank hungry? He licks a newspaper for the residual grease of the chips it held. Is he sopping? He steps in more puddles than Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. (Ten years the family rented the same flooded ground floor, and no one thought to lay a plank from the doorway to the stairs.) The three boys playing Frank at 7, 11 and 15 are fine. They create a collective portrait of a child tough enough to survive a horrendous youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Angela's Ashes | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Contest." It seems that FM s crack team of personnel managers couldn t find a single other person capable of operating a manually focusing camera. Josh stood in line for over seven hours, amidst hoards of dirty, scary people, in-you guessed it-the pouring rain, just so he could take a photograph of Times Square that we probably could have lifted off of any one of three dozen postcards. For those of you have been wondering who s been monopolizing all of those Wednesday afternoon appointments at UHS Mental Health, let s just say Frontier Land is a tough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Groupies | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...that. The right "-ism" will be worth going to jail for. The right "-ism" will be all I need to be happy. I want to want to pour my heart into something, to lay everything I care about on the line. I want to run out into the pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer cracks and crumbles...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Christopher J. Perriello '99, bought basins, drains and pumps, and screwed them together to create a tropical waterfall with a six-foot drop in his dorm room. The fluorescence mixed in with the water gleamed under his black lights. Outside, the cold New England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Go Make Waterfalls: Fantasy Worlds Within the Confines of Harvard's Dorms | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...drip all over him, I get a little unsolicited help from a sudden loud buzzing noise--the first crisis of the evening. It seems the fog of the London Fog party has activated the smoke alarm. I quickly leave the building and step out into the ominous beginnings of rain. We regroup and head down Mass. Ave. towards MIT. The drizzling subsides, and Tad describes his ADP party experience...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Just Can't Get Enough: One Night, 15 Parties | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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