Word: wallows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approximately 45 students hoping to prove that Harvard students do not "wallow in apathy and inaction" gathered in the Lamont Forum Room last night to plan a drive to provide relief for war-torn Bosnia...
...unlikely that the coming semester will see Harvard define a grand New Joke Order. Likely the campus will wallow in a hellish Armageddon of humor gone wrong. How far out of control will this epidemic of pranks spiral? How many must die, or at least get really annoyed, before University Hall steps in? Pranks have been taken out of the hands of professionals and taken up by an unpredictable mob. Beware, Harvard, the minute hand on the Doomsday clock is ticking. Oh, yes, it is ticking...
...plays Gilbert, a youngish person who might describe himself as a member of Generation X if he knew what that was. His life revolves around his family. The death of his father has left Gilbert in charge, and as his once-beautiful mother's way of mourning is to wallow in grotesque obesity, his older sister Amy (Laura Harrington) has taken over the maternal role. The Grape family is frozen in time. Momma's immobility reduces her to a permanent state of infancy, and mentally handicapped brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) needs constant supervision...
...pine away. If you get depressed, don't hang around. Unless you enjoy misery, of course, which is perfectly understandable. If you want to wallow in self-pity, spend every moment around them, moan to your friends and write sappy poetry. But if I were you, I'd get a life. Watch TV, go for a bike ride, whatever; my guess is no one is worth that much heartache...
...these days. Any movie that luxuriates in decor and landscape will be seen to dawdle (Aren't these the passages we all skipped over in the novels our English teachers demanded we read?). A pretty face in a pretty picture stirs all sorts of righteous suspicions about artists who wallow in nostalgia for the glamorous artifacts of a despotic past...