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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title role, Kate Nelligan unfortunately does nothing to diminish Gage's beatific image of Eleni. Shot through a bright yellow screen, Nelligan positively glows with the radiance of the blessed. In one scene, she has to lug a huge trunk full of rare American goodies up the hill next to her house, drawing a clear analogy between the soon-to-be betrayed Eleni and the martyred Christ making his ascent up Calgary Hill. As she reaches the top, she announces to Nicholas, God and anyone else within hearing, "Nicolai Gatzuiannus, your father is alive!" with all the verbal presence...
Harvard's Student Health Advisory Committee has planned an AIDS Seminar for November 20, Wacker said. He added that on that date, UHS will begin distributing new literature on the disease, which attacks the immune system rendering its victim extremely vulnerable to pneumonia and certain rare forms of cancer...
...movie's rare believable scenes, Alice's Parisian son, left alone while Philippe is in flight, calls her at the hospital in Trouville, first because the stove is broken and then for help on his homework. Realizing she can do nothing for him, Alice breaks down into anguished, frustrated tears. This is the only sign in the film that Alice is at all torn by her two lives. But it still doesn't convey why she's allowing herself to be torn between two complete losers. The movie is completely devoid of psychology...
...were it not for their extraordinary compassion and empathy, they would not be in their present position. This is especially true in Jennifer Granholme's case. Jennifer voluntarily involved herself in the hearings in order that Mike Anderson not suffer a heavier punishment. Such an act of friendship is rare and should be applauded, and that the Ad Board appears to have given it no consideration in its decision is very disheartening to me. Hard as I try, I cannot understand the Board's decision, and absoulutely fail to see the justice in Jennifer's punishment...
...given the exigencies of moral rectitude and appeals to what the public wants--and these days, it seems, that's conservatives--it is a rare Senate and President that will look to the future, much less to their fifth grade civics lessons...