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...plasma screen announcing the day’s races. As Judah H. Rome said, “this is probably the only place on the course [where] you can drink without feeling bothered by the police.” Indeed, not everyone grasped the “Reunion?? in Reunion Village. “I haven’t seen any of my old classmates,” admitted Daniel J. Rhodes ’01. “I’m only here for the beer...
...enjoy myself, and for this I congratulate the newly elected College Events Board. The bumper cars were very cool. Enjoyable though it was, the carnival will probably be forgotten. It was like Harvard-Yale without the hookups. Or alcohol. Or meaning. It was also like a large family reunion??noisy and irregular—with everyone smiling on for dear life. The matriarch had coerced everyone into attending, and that is why they did, secure in the return to routine upon its happy end. Ultimately, the carnival was probably a distraction from building a real community at Harvard...
...Scoring the final goal in a soccer game? Getting an Xbox for Christmas? Well, after seeing “Akeelah and the Bee,” it will undoubtedly be winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.Akeelah (Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion??), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper English and slang, and even pre-pubescent love.Director Doug Atchison certainly...
Likewise, the runaway success of niche films has been a source of consternation for major studios. “Madea’s Family Reunion??—Tyler Perry’s follow-up to his 2005 cult hit “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”—topped the box office for two weeks despite being targeted almost exclusively at African-Americans familiar with Perry’s stage productions...
...fair to Adam Rapp, the film’s main flaws probably result, not from any personal lack of skill, but from the type of narrative itself. The “family reunion??-type film is too often overwhelmed by sugary sentimentality. There is a temptation to present the story as a nicely-wrapped package of vague, universal redemption...