Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of Sir Thomas More is firmly based in history. Henry VIII, of six wives' fame, wants to divorce his wife, and in doing so divorce the English church from Rome. But Thomas More, a respected official famed for his honesty and integrity, will not go along with this. All sides, all people demand that he give in to necessity and agree with the divorce and the new church. But More cannot; he is a man loyal to his soul above all else, and stubbornly refuses to save first his position, then his comfort, and finally his life...
...Rattey '02, Jay Chaffan '01, Jerry Ruiz '00 and David Joffe '00 all add their own valuable as Richard Rich, the Common Man, Norfolk and King Henry, respectively. Paul Monteleone '01 has an especially forceful presence as Cromwell, and Edie Bishop '00 gives a touching portrayal of More's wife, Alice...
...movie, Lester Burnham (a brilliant Kevin Spacey), trapped and overly-insulated, leads a meaningless life with no sense of power or self-esteem; bogged down with particulars, he no longer knows how and when to express the proper emotions and can no longer communicate with his daughter or wife. Burnham eventually snaps this spell by developing a strong sexual fantasy for his daughter's 17-year-old friend, triggering an entirely hedonistic lifestyle in which he buys whatever he wants and smokes pot all day. This is a direct reaction to his prior condition of too much independence...
...thereafter the Sox went into Yankee Stadium near the tail end of a tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor radio as Caroline napped in the stroller and Luci shopped the Main Street boutiques. I was telling my sleeping daughter, "Clemens used to be with us. Tremendous arm, but never...
...Yanks. My friend John's father, who lives in Providence, is pretty sick, and has us all praying the Sox do it this year. Another John, in Andover, Mass., lost both his parents in the past few years, so it didn't happen in their lifetimes. But his wife Anne's mother, in Winchester, is going crazy over Pedro, and John and Anne have a son and daughter old enough to appreciate ? and share ? their parents' excitement. Barry's father, an artist up in Boothbay, Maine, is a fair-weather fan, but it is fair weather these days...