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...paying for cable even if you'd rather surf the Web than surf 100 channels. You call that something all students want? I call it a marginal quality-of-life concern. (Not to mention the fact that cable TV is not apolitical. For example, should students have access to adult channels? I can see a Playboy Coalition forming...
...adult, the ladies? man "had a very utilitarian concept of women," said a police investigator; it was to "befriend those creatures because they could serve...
...give these kids a better chance at life. By the end of the year 2000, we aim to provide at least 2 million of them with five basic resources we believe they need to make it in today's America. These are: an ongoing relationship with a caring adult; safe places and structured activities from which to learn and grow during nonschool hours; a healthy start and a healthy future; a marketable skill through effective education; and an opportunity to give back through community service...
...drive. Here, Hunt had to deglamourize her image--give herself a makeunder. It's not just that Carol's hair is dark and lifelessly curly; work and worry have lent her an almost cadaverous pallor. In years of devotion to her son, she has forgotten the body language of adult affection. When a doctor speaks to her kindly, she can express her gratitude only by clumsily hugging his face. But she's great at crying: in one scene, her tears squirt perfectly down both cheeks, like the soap mechanism on windshield wipers...
Williamson kids may talk like therapists, but they act like guarded and wounded 15-year-olds whose cell phones and videotapes stand in for a sadly absent adult institutional authority. Scream worked not just because teens reacting to murders in their midst by ironically citing old horror movies was a fresh take on a way-stale tale, but also because their jaded nonchalance felt almost frighteningly cynical...