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...movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished, sad-looking house we are left with. Yet despite it all, we never fail to say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year, we are not laughing at Griswold's unreal expectations or foibles - we are laughing at ourselves. Craig J. Miller...
...French arms deal. Related charges were filed against Zuma on Dec. 14. And though he was acquitted in a rape trial in 2006, his testimony revealed shocking attitudes about sex and AIDS, including an admission that he had unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman but showered afterward to reduce the risk of infection...
...body-punishing industry” in which male actors with chemically supported erections test the limits of the female body. The women involved pretend to love it—most men, Dines admitted, are not sadists and will not enjoy porn that smacks of suffering—but afterward they are left to inspect themselves for the kinds of tears and ruptures that commonly result. Actresses are prone to Chlamydia of the eye from the semen that is sprayed on their faces in a mocking and malicious spirit—one’s face is, after all, the place...
...movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Clark Griswold personifies all of our ideals to the extreme. Every year we confront the hassles of "exterior illumination," the perfect tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished house we are left with. Yet, despite it all, we say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year, we are not laughing at Griswold's foibles - we are laughing at ourselves. Craig J. Miller, DUNCANSVILLE...
...several meetings with various members of the University during the dean search to discuss the issues facing GSAS and his ideas about its future. After several of these meetings, Smith met with Brandt late one afternoon to offer him the deanship. Brandt’s decision came soon afterward.“It is obviously a big decision,” Brandt said. “So I told him how excited I was about the possibility of leading the graduate school, and then I got back to him relatively quickly after I had time to think it over...