Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leah A. Plunkett '01, who held a signadvocating gay rights, was spurred to action afterobserving a protester carrying a sign during thespeech of Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass) whichread "Barney Frank=Moral Leader...
...differences that I see in the new wave of people is that they've never faced oppression," she says. "They're more inclined to deal with problems by getting a lawyer, whereas with working class and minority populations, they're more likely to make an effort with collective action because they've faced oppression before...
...years-in-the-desert water bottle. We had the parting-of-the-Red-Sea shower curtain." But ultimately, both DreamWorks and its partner Burger King concluded that they would be doing themselves "a terrible disservice" if they pushed any kind of merchandise that would trivialize the film. Moses action figures were out. Instead, DreamWorks came up with a Wal-Mart package containing tickets to the film, a souvenir book and a sampler...
...other hand, you have to admit that there is something brave about moving this character from the place where he usually lurks in the movies--on the comic-relief fringe of a teen-age gang--to the center of the action. You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance. We can see that it covers loneliness, social ineptitude, even a certain amount of duplicity. His father is not the neurosurgeon he claims he is, but a barber. Yet the actor never once sues us for sympathy, and it comes as a nice surprise when we find...
...good story. While we may convince ourselves that we read the newspaper to become informed members of a democracy, we really read it for stories. I didn't want the Texas Fugitive Guy to re-enter society. I just wanted the chase to drag out into a page-turning action-mystery. Or a romantic tearjerker. Or any of those Blockbuster categories...