Word: sisterly
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...think we feel it really important to demonstrate to his parents and sister how special he was here," said Otto Coontz, the assistant to the Adams House Senior Tutor...
...best film) and here the human relationships are often severely lacking, cold even. The friendship between Maximus and a fellow gladiator (played by Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) has no emotional resonance, nor does his bland romance (if you want to call it that) with the emperor's sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus...
...running narrative commentary on his thoughts and opinions. An average Brooklyn family, Jack (David Huyssen '02), Kate (Dana Scardigli '00) and their two children, Stanley (Eric Chesin '02) and Eugene, struggle to confront the economic and logistical hardships associated with taking in three more people: Kate's widowed sister Blanche (Debbie Rin '01) and her two children, Broadway-bound Nora (Sandra Seru '01) and sickly Laurie (Shaylyl Romney '02). With the constant backdrop of the pending war in Europe, each member of the family must come to terms with the demands he or she places upon the others...
...political activism. However, the march had a more somber side; it also commemorated individuals who have been victims of hate crimes. Two of the most poignant moments during the afternoon were the appearances of the parents of Matthew Shepard, a gay student killed in Wyoming, and nephew and sister of James Byrd Jr., an African-American who was murdered in Texas. They urged the marchers to speak out for the peaceful acceptance of diversity in America...
...sick neighbors are piping up. "I didn't want to go see the movie, but I did. Give me a break! What s___! They depicted the lawyers as so concerned about the residents," says Diane Zuniga, whose mother got $40,000 in the lawsuit but whose father, brother and sister got nothing, despite what Zuniga says were equally serious health problems. "Does [Brockovich] really care? I don't know. I just know I want enough money to get this crap out of my body...