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Hours before she was assured a spot on the council, over 100 eager supporters and fans filled the restaurant in anticipation of Decker's forthcoming victory. The visibly relieved Decker described the campaign as an amazing--albeit exhausting--experience...
...person. And yet there is something almost diverse about the divisions: "It's very cliquish here," says junior Lauren Bell, "but each group is actually very mixed--it's not all the jocks, all the preps, all the punks, and I like that." Lauren sometimes considers herself an outsider, albeit a straight-A, cheerleading one. "You become a target, not really for looking different, but for thinking different from other people," she says, "like not caring about being popular. That is really asking...
...album opens with the radio-friendly "Down." The hard guitar riffs and big rock sound, combined with Weiland's whiny, albeit pleasantly grating, voice conjure memories of the early '90s rock. The power chords and simplistic drop D chords make the song sound vaguely like "Big Empty," the major hit from Purple and The Crow soundtrack...
...Lynch's artistic vision more than a mere fixation on the eclectic and the bizarre? To be sure, Lynch's work holds a tremendous, albeit sometimes ironic, sense of poignancy. Take Twin Peaks, for instance: While the producers at ABC, as well as a nation of television viewers, were obsessed with "Who Killed Laura Palmer?", Lynch affirmed that the focus of the project was never the identification of the killer, but rather the depiction of one town's reaction to the loss of innocence. Twin Peaks was unsuccessful because it was marketed like a "Dallas" episode. Forced to finger...
...opening of Fight Club makes it clear that the movie's a satire. It's supposed to be a biting mockery of yuppie angst. When Norton starts attending testicular cancer and TB support groups to release his anger and built-up anxiety, we laugh (albeit uncomfortably, but we laugh). When he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group squatter, and they divide group therapy sessions between them, we laugh. But when blood starts flying, Norton starts crying, and buildings start frying, we stop laughing. (It almost reminded me of Showgirls, the way the movie just loses...