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...mother dies in the first line while British soldiers mill around the fringes of his memory. As is his wont, the speaker transmits his reactions to the moments that are most eventful by way of the images he recalls alongside them. The memories that tie themselves to his mother??€™s death, his time in a children’s home, and his father’s remarriage are mostly grim—young, scarred legs and bodily worms abound. But his frankness, perhaps the book’s most noteworthy quality, permits the often-comic process of learning...
...recurring images are more reminders for the attentive viewer than the tools of the director’s agenda. Admittedly, the direction is not perfect. The story only begins to cohere around the 40-minute mark, helped along by the introduction of Jennifer Lawrence as Mariana, a teen whose mother??€™s affair forces her to grow up too fast. Lawrence has already received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for emerging actors at the Venice Film Festival—an honor previously given to fellow Arriaga actor Gael GarcÃa Bernal—which her bracing performance richly deserves...
...editorial staff of Harvard Magazine as one of the two Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows and wrote several columns on topics ranging from surviving the black-pinstripe-suit-days of her senior year job hunt to navigating life after college, which she likened to dousing herself in her mother??€™s perfume and playing dress-up as a five-year...
...make your life miserable, with crimson baby booties and Harvard bath towels—even Harvard teddy bears. Your family dinners have been interrupted for years by Harvard students calling to ask for donations. When you were in eighth grade, you had to trek up to Cambridge for your mother??€™s 25th reunion. It rained the whole time, and you had to listen to fifty year-old Pitches trying to recreate jazz standards...
Sebelius was introduced by her son, Edward K. Sebelius, who graduates from the Kennedy School today, and who drew laughs from the audience by recalling that his mother??€™s political successes had frequently coincided with his own academic achievements...