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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That kind of plangent wistfulness is hardly confined to Mother's account of her honeymoon or Grandpa's homesickness for his youth. The tug and ache of nostalgia pull even at the hardiest of travelers. The caustic Evelyn Waugh introduces his collection of travel essays, When the Going Was Good, with a heartbroken valedictory to a vanished Golden Age of travel that is, in effect, a valentine to his own lost youth. In every traveler's eulogy there is a strain of elegy, and every traveler hearkens to the raven's knelling cry of "Nevermore...
...curiously moved by this harsh film, not least because of Sandrine Bonnaire's astonishing performance as Mona. She personifies youth gripped by a self-destructive ideal (in this case radical individualism), but she projects it without petulance or self-pity. She--and the film--insists only on the unknowability of another human being's choices. We are free to decide if that point is irrelevant to us or tragedy enough to explain, if not life in general, then this particular death...
...separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser. The physicist has underestimated Paul, who is cannily played not as a weirdo science nerd but as a youth who likes to keep his brainpower to himself out of normal adolescent secretiveness...
...arrives 10 minutes late, wearing jeans and a brown leather jacket and ragged tennis shoes; his exterior fits the stereotype of a stree-wise youth. But his piercing brown eyes reveal a side left out of the newspaper articles and Phillips Brooks House reports...
Cruz says his greatest experience atHarvard--and probably the one which has mosthelped him survive here without assimilating--hasbeen his work with the PBH Keylatch program. Cruzhas worked with the youth program in Boston sinceits inception in the fall...