Word: alexanderã
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...staple of childhood, Malick’s latest endeavor is appropriate to the end of adolescence, from the characters’ introspective first-person voice-overs with their unabashed expression of idealism, to the casting of “heartthrob” Colin Farrell (“Alexander??) as the angst-ridden, yet hopeful, John Smith.The film’s themes also strike close to the preoccupations of people in their late teens and early twenties: Malick explores the vagaries of love, war and the indefinite attractiveness of Farrell in various states of scruff. Whether or not Malick?...
...been on the map in a while, and it apparently has (drumroll) a brief gay sex scene! The latter chunk is important, particularly in the year that Satan returns for another four years in the White House. Hollywood is obsessed with its own pseudo-progressive politics, and even though Alexander??s “gayness” is situated within an antiquated culture in which man-on-man action was mostly confined to a master-slave dimension, this will likely be lost on the Academy and Alexander will thus become a highly “liberal?...
...ultimately, a rare course-wide February makeup final. For Leong, the threat meant a set of charges that could have brought him significant jail time—albeit charges that were never prosecuted. Three-and-a-half years later, as the last students from “Images of Alexander?? graduate, the criminal justice system has lost track of Leong...
...course, the phenomenon of clothing-as-speech is not limited to high schools; even adults use their clothing as an ideological shorthand (as Lamar “I’m Wearing This Flannel Shirt to Demonstrate That I’m un Homme du Peuple” Alexander??s 1996 presidential campaign made clear...
...flag proclaimed. Her comment reminded me of nothing so much as the kids who stitched jagged, circled “As” onto their sweatshirts and told us they stood for more than just anarchy—what exactly, they couldn’t say. As Lamar Alexander??s ill-fated Presidential campaign showed us, ideologically-inspired clothing is no replacement for well-thought-out, well-articulated ideas...