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...themselves. The rest of us regularly offer up our judgments every five years, when Harvard asks its graduates, male and female, to write about themselves for the class "Redbook," a "collective autobiography of triumphs and failures, bragging and tales of woe." As the preface to our just published 30th-reunion report warns, what we have to say can be "breathtakingly candid, insightful, boring, witty, curmudgeonly, heartbreaking." But it's always an intriguing peep into 1,493 personal diaries...
...considerable satisfaction, yet there were big stumbles too--a classmate was briefly a welfare mother, and a summa cum laude grad with a Ph.D. is doing "odd jobs"--and the searing realization that we could fall short of our high expectations. Psychologist Susan King Brown admitted in the 25th-reunion book the secret in many of our 50-year-old hearts: how hard it is to come to terms with the fact that "I'm not at the top of my field ... that I will probably never do any significant or well-known intellectual work." Vivien Weir Russe says...
Free? Did someone say free? It's hard to believe that anything on the concert circuit is free these days, especially when tickets for shows like U2's Pop Mart and Fleetwood Mac's reunion tour are selling for as much as $60 and $70. But "free" was the word heard all weekend, as students around campus grabbed friends to hop on the T and head to downtown Boston for MIX Fest '97, the two day outdoor extravaganza organized by local radio station MIX 98.5 (WBMX...
...radar locks onto an Olds coming the other way at 102 m.p.h. Tuttle crosses the median, turns south and shifts into warp. He's at 100, 110, 120, 130, 135. Now he's got him. Mike McCready, a 21-year-old Canadian student on his way to a reunion of Mormon missionaries, steps...
...opens with a grainy home video--which sets the stage for the gritty, almost monochromatic texture of the rest of the movie--of an apparently happy, eminently normal family gathered together for a birthday party. The story then cuts to 20 years later, with the annual Thanksgiving reunion with the folks (Roy Scheider and Blythe Danner). This year, all four children show up: Mia (Julianne Moore), Jake (Michael Vartan), Leigh (Laurel Holloman), and, somewhat unexpectedly, the long-absent Warren (Noah Wyle). Significant others are in attendance: Mia's boyfriend, Elliot (Brian Kerwin); Jake's girlfriend, Margaret (Hope Davis); and, flitting...