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...taste. The typical Sandler comedy (not this year's amiable The Wedding Singer, in which he plays a borderline grownup, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the new film) is about a nerdy sociopath who learns to channel his rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy...
...White House parking lot. Ms. Lewinsky went to the White House only to find that the doors to Ms. Currie's car were locked. Ms. Lewinsky waited in the rain. Ms. Currie eventually met her in the parking lot, and, in Ms. Lewinsky's words, they made a "bee line" into the White House, sneaking up the back stairs to avoid other White House employees... Ms. Lewinsky left two small gifts for the President with Ms. Currie, then waited alone for about half an hour in the Oval Office study...
...answers came quickly and excitedly, as would answers in a spelling bee, information memorized and then recited at the appropriate moment. At the time I wondered whether conflict resolution skills could be taught in one hour sessions once a week. My doubts persisted as I struggled to help my students question assumptions rather than memorize information...
...Saturday Night Fever makes John Travolta, the Bee Gees and white suits cool...
...Georgia Tech Yellowjackets, whose mascot is Buzz the bee, have filed suit against the Salt Lake City Buzz, a minor league baseball team whose mascot is Buzzy the bee. Both teams sell merchandise with BUZZ on it; Tech says it has the rights...