Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wartime swain in Racing with the Moon, a pinwheeling bozo in The Falcon and the Snowman. Here he is all static electricity, forcing a smile through the sour taste in his mouth, weighing filial devotion against conventional morality, trying to figure out what his body will tell his brain to do next. And when, at the climax, he confronts Brad Sr. over a string of domestic crimes ("Is this the family gun, Dad?"), Penn gives the movie, and his career to date, a sensational payoff. Worry over the film's shortcomings while you watch it, but put this performance...
...They're plain wrong," he said, citing medical and scientific evidence. "At and above .10, their brain and central nervous system are literally bathed in enough alcohol to make [the drivers] unsafe pilots," he said...
Kansas City is the center of the sticky craze, and the pioneer there is the T.J. Cinnamons Bakery, opened in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in January 1985. T.J.'s workers shaped the ball of dough (called by some a brain) into buns and baked them nine to a pan in full view of the public. The proud creators were Ted and Joyce (thereby the initials T.J.) Rice, he a television cameraman and she an elementary-school teacher. After tireless testings of their recipe on friends, they arrived at the right formula. "I thought it should have a high center...
Boot Camp for the Brain...
...Paper Chase is a lie," says second-year student William B. Lindsey. "It depicts this place as an intellectually stimulating marine boot camp for the brain...