Word: bees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEE: Yes, I do, and it was a mantra that I was thinking a lot about when I was working on Glamorama. And it's just: Don't be an asshole. That's really what I tell myself a lot . I was just thinking--don't make a lot of bad choices and don't be an asshole...
...DESIGN, a cool house by Koolhaus. In MUSIC, a magical, defiant album by the woman formerly known as a Fugee. In THEATER, an angry drama from a member of the latest generation of angry young men. In BOOKS, a novel that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, and a biography of the man who pioneered that style. In SPORTS--well, duh. (Sorry, Michael; sorry, Yankees.) And then there are the year's best PEOPLE, or at least the year's most quintessential: 15 who got their 15 minutes. So turn the page already. What are you waiting...
...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...