Word: bathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gramercy, it turned out, is more than a room and a bath. It provides job training and counseling on issues from drugs to family planning. It arranged special tutoring for Joshua, who is in second grade, and even located a Cub Scout troop for him. Randy could earn "shelter money" to buy necessities, while 80% of his $490 a month from Aid to Families with Dependent Children (afdc) check was set aside by the Gramercy staff to build up some savings so he can move out and start paying rent on his own place. That will happen within two weeks...
...addition, those who dressed up for Class Day, Yale Sucks Day or Harvard Spirit/Crimson Day won prizes ranging from bath toys to gift certificates...
...Florida Federation of Republican Women, Dole organizers replaced the customary canapes with shrimp, sliced lobster tails and strawberries dipped in white and dark chocolate to look as though dressed in tuxedoes, nesting beneath a cream-puff tree. For party favors, there were Godiva chocolates and Crabtree & Evelyn bath oil--not to mention a live band and a male ballroom dancer, available for waltzing...
Today any mogul can see the smart arithmetic in films of low to medium budget that earn medium to high grosses. "When an action movie costs $60 million and then tanks," says actress-director Jodie Foster, "the studio takes a huge bath. But if you make reasonable films about people and how they relate to one another and the weird adventures they get into, you're actually taking a very good risk...
...Persuasion" encounters the inevitable fate of a movie based on an Austen novel: It is louder, more simplistic and garish than the original. When Anne and Wentworth kiss on the street in Bath, the whole social code which underlies Austen's world is simply tossed aside in the name of a satisfying climax. But although the film's tone is not perfect, it is close. And the acting, cinematography, even music, are as good as could be hoped for. Go see "Persuasion," but don't forget to stop at the bookstore on the way home...