Word: trek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Academy Award-winning actor F. MURRAY ABRAHAM destined to be Mr. Roarke? Both hosts of Fantasy Island, Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell, have also played villains in Star Trek movies. Now Abraham has donned the latex for Star Trek: Insurrection. He plays Ru'afo, an alien Peter Pan. "Ru'afo's like so many of us who never want to grow old," says the actor, "but he takes it to terrible extremes, like some of these awful face-lifts you see in Hollywood." His own facial regimen--four hours of makeup daily--did have its perks: "Being really ugly...
...Yaakov Freedland's Fragments of a Dream set the archetypal figures of the willful: an army-bound son and the proud father unwilling to leave his violent homeland amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theme of self-sacrifice for the sake of family preservation manifested itself in the desert trek of a Sudanese family to Jerusalem in Einat Kapach's Jephtach's Daughter. The highlight of the screenings, however, was Ido, an award-winning documentary directed by Gilaad Goldschmidt, which combined similar themes of youthful rebellion and family relationship with a more contemporary edge. Ido's title character...
...nestled between the shadows of Staples and Toys `R' Us is Jack's Smoke Shop, housing both Megabucks lotto tickets and Macanudo cigars in a single cramped room. According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will aid cigar novices with his storehouse of tobacco knowledge, choosing selections according to price ranges and personal tastes. While the wannabe-pretentious Harvardian...
...shining key sitting on his desk, on top of a note reading: "Note to Self: Don't forget to return this by tomorrow morning." I sighed. And made the trek out to Paine Hall, in the snow...
Each year the club makes a trek to New York City to gain first-hand exposure to the world of finance...