Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monkeys which have conveniently escaped from a nearby monkey-circus train wreck, and you get a movie that's a little too big for its diapers. Come on--a two-year-old who can take care of his newborn brother for a whole night, armed only with a diaper bag and his own wits? Even so, it might have worked out in the end, if the filmmakers hadn't insisted on combining "deeper issues" within the shell of this rollicking adventure...
Your article implies that Bagcraft somehow took advantage of Kansas citizens [in relocating a paper bag-making factory]. You said the incentive program didn't pay off because "zero new jobs were created nationwide." Let us give credit where it is due. Kansas officials helped win federal support to stimulate growth in the economically depressed southeast Kansas area. There are now 350 jobs in Baxter Springs, Kans., and there are 150 new employees--not transfers from other facilities. Baxter Springs' economy has grown, and the town has attracted even more new business. Everyone appreciates the added potential for future growth...
...Bag-lugging, book-toting students will once again be relieved of the pre-holiday trek to Logan Airport, thanks to the Undergraduate Council...
...Waterboy--and, like Sandler-film screenwriter Tim Herlihy, a pal of the star's since they were all at New York University a decade ago. That's exactly right. The films are full of preadolescent aggression, exaggerated for laughs. In Billy Madison, Sandler gets his kicks by leaving a bag of flaming feces at a neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy Gilmore, Sandler kills his dad with an errant slap shot. The films' running gag is of an innocent bystander getting clobbered...
...dark, as Persson's voice became barbed and deceptive. Even "Lovefool," the classic, buoyant paean to romantic masochism, was edged with rougher guitars and a surprising growl from Persson, pronouncing the deeper power dynamics that were unexpressed in the original recording. The Cardigans got a brand new bag...