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That means he is a perfect citizen of what we might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...
...HCD’s current emphasis on blind partisanship is sadly misguided. The ability to consider each issue on its merits and act accordingly has been relegated to a minor concern behind vigorous campaigning for professional politicians. A primary function of HRC and HCD should be to encourage students to confront the important political questions of the day and formulate their own opinions on them, unburdened by preconceived dogma or diatribe. Their failure to do so is a lazy intellectual cop-out. Moreover, without the emergence of individuals from colleges like Harvard who are prepared to question publicly the wisdom...
...important financial stake in admitting legacy students; alumni are more apt to give money when they think that their children have a bit of an edge in the admissions game, and it is this very money that, to take one example, enables the college to have a need-blind financial aid system...
...addition to the strenuous conditions, the Crimson was faced with the challenge of playing the course blind, as the team arrived too late on Friday to walk the course...
Which raises the question, If home design can jeopardize a relationship, can it begin one too? Since Sept. 30, HGTV has been trying to find out on the blind-date home show Love by Design. (Notice that buzzword design again. Who does anything as declasse as "decorating" anymore?) One single visits a stranger's pad for a surprise home renovation and, just maybe, a little somethin'-somethin' afterward. A silly idea, sure, but what better way to preview your future than to see what your prospective mate, given the chance, would do to your piles of CD jewel boxes...