Word: axing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obvious cases where good teachers are letgo early are more than compensated for [by thefact that] so-so teaching was allowed tocontinue," Buell said. "[In a more lenientsystem,] are you going to chop the head off ofrespectable mediocrity? The odds are that you'regoing to reserve the axe for blatant cases...
...film Meyers plays Charlie McKenzie, who has paranoid delusions about all of his girlfriends, except of course the "axe murderer." The only other thing the audience knows about Charlie is that he is a 1990s beatnik cappucino-drinking poet...
...Axe Murderer" is pure Caricature. Each character performs a little dance in front of the audience without connecting with any of the others. Watching each character on screen for a few frames with their own humor would work fine on a standup comedy show, or "Saturday Night Live," but not in a full-length film...
...movie was built on one idea that wasn't so bad, marrying an axe murderer. Unfortunately the film goes nowhere from there. The characters have no plot to hold them up, only an undeveloped concept. Without any outside support they're blown over by Meyers' gusts of independent energy...
Actually, that advice applies to everyone, not just the teenagers. Listen to the sound-track and turn on the TV if seeing Mike Meyers is a necessity. Don't worry about watching the reruns--it's not as though you're going to see anything new in "Axe Murderer...