Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American boarding schools are falling apart, we need not waste our tears on them. Hicks, in his tired defense, cannot help romanticizing the past glories of the American boarding school. He himself seems convinced that the boarding school's best days are over. His caricature of modern-day adolescence is overblown and unconvincing, while his recommendations for the future are nearly nonexistent. We should, without attacking today's teenagers, let the American boarding school bow out gracefully...
...document by an unnamed French intelligence agent offering "very, very strong proof" that TWA Flight 800 had been destroyed accidentally by a missile test-fired from a U.S. naval vessel. One problem: Salinger's "secret document" had been on the Internet for weeks and had already been picked apart in the press...
...theme: the temptation to become something other and powerful, instead of cozy, ordinary you. It borrows not only from the Trek canon, but from other science fiction (eek!--there's a killer alien on board!). Yet First Contact is no grab bag of camp gewgaws; it stands proud and apart, accessible even to the Trek-deficient. This old Star, it seems, has a lot of life...
...rich, and the poor think they're middle class, and therefore have no hesitation about aspiring above their stations, this plot doesn't work anymore. Instead, we have items like The Mirror Has Two Faces, where the thing keeping Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges) and Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) apart is, of all things, the celibate ideal...
...their time discussing fairy tales written by ignorant men about 2,000 years ago? Genesis' main lesson is to emphasize man's dismal failure in trying to create God in man's own image. The book's only relevance today is to the Jewish people, whose culture produced Genesis. Apart from its value as literature, Genesis has no meaning for the rest of us. As long as we keep giving this mythology a divine image, it will be impossible for modern man to transcend the dark ages we still carry in our minds. RAFAEL A. MIRABAL Caguas, Puerto Rico...