Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Will Saving Private Ryan split Best Picture votes with The Thin Red Line, leaving the race open for Shakespeare in Love or Life is Beautiful? Will the Academy give Tom Hanks another undeserved Oscar because they refuse to credit Ian McKellan for his portrayal of a gay film director? (the Academy refuses to acknowledge gay actors in gay roles--only straight actors who feign gayness get nominated. Witness the fact they passed over Rupert Everett in My Best Friend's Wedding for Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets...
...Opportune Moment." Except for the ballad, the songs were similar in form; they began with a Belle and Sebastian like delicacy and built up to a passionate central moment that belied the simplicity of the band's instruments (drummer Shawn Sears plays only a bass drum, snare, tom, and cymbals). "Modern Log" featured Perrino in a delirious state of glossolalia, faintly reminiscent of Eddie Vedder in the early and earnest "Jeremy" days. "I'm a Believer" began with an innocent guitar/bass duet and ended with each band member convulsing in his own private seizure, screaming, "I'm a believer...
...Tom was an extraordinary person who was able to do enormous amounts of work, yet still have time for graduate and undergraduate students. He was nominated by doctoral students for several mentoring awards," said McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy...
Four of the organizers--Hyewon T. Chong '95, Asian American Association Co-President Jennifer Ching '96, Raza President Xavier A. Gutierrez '95 and Minority Students Alliance Co-Chair Jean Tom '96--walked into President Neil L. Rudenstine's office hours on Wednesday to press for more minority faculty and ethnic studies classes...
Despite the somewhat tepid response, organizers say they intend to press their grievances further. Tom, the MSA co-chair, said this week that the group will write a letter to parents of minority students to let them know about its concerns and ask for support...