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Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...
...President Alec Garraway '90 is more liberal with congratulations. "It showed a tremendous amount of musical and technical prowess," Garraway says of Hinton's competition winning performance. "He picked a really exciting piece, very difficult to play...
Veteran actor Alec Guinness, co-star of Little Dorrit, received a nomination for best supporting actor, as did Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda, Martin Landau for Tucker. The Man and His Dream, River Phoenix for Running On Empty and Dean Stockwell for Married...
...reunited last April when O'Toole joined Alec Guinness to dub parts of the restored film under Lean's direction. "It could have been macabre," he acknowledges, "but it wasn't. It was fun. For one thing, David and I could see Lawrence in a different light. We were more detached, and the way to capture those moments seemed clearer. It's the old story: actors play Hamlet in their late 20s and then realize in their mid-50s that they now know...
Thompson also spent $750 consulting attorney Alec Gray on ways to monitor Graham's campaign. On Tuesday night he said he feared election officials might count ballots whose stickers had fallen off, and that there might be "violence at the polls" as a result of Graham's campaign...