Word: adults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this moment that ...So Goes the Nation becomes a primer on how to win an election. The Republicans - especially Karl Rove - have achieved an almost mythological reputation for their campaign savvy, but So Goes exposes this brilliance as, essentially, a strategy based on acting like an adult. The G.O.P.'s major achievements: They stayed on message. They didn't leak. We expect the same from grade schoolers. Yes, this basic competence was combined with a certain amount of ruthlessness, but ruthlessness is not what the Democrats lacked. While willing to "fight with their fists," the Kerry campaign comes across...
...directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) and Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) made the screen a place where the intimacies of adult couples could be dramatized...
...Points of entry to schools and school grounds should be limited and controlled, staffed by an adult trained to determine if potential visitors belong there...
Thursday, October 5. Tickets $10, competition fee for the Adult Bee $5, which includes a copy of “100 Words to Make You Sound Smart.” The Brattle Theater...
...study accounted for such potential confounding factors as academic achievement, background characteristics, educational attainment, adult drinking habits, and family and job characteristics...