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...think we played good defense, but sometimes on that surface the ball can just jump over your stick and that's all it takes to create a breakaway," Schoolwerth said. "We had a few unlucky turnovers, but there was no defensive breakdown or anything like that. It felt like we spent a lot of time making up for mistakes that weren't our fault...
However, conversations with staff reveal a breakdown in communication...
...where foreign-language films are hard to find even in art houses, Almodovar, 48, is a reliable moneymaker. He also makes the kind of bright, saucy films Hollywood wishes it could. So the studios have courted him ever since his 1988 hit Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. They bought remake rights for Jane Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes to make a film soon in Florida, based...
...paean to the mothership of all things flatulent. It began as a trudging grind-core chant to the ship itself, progressed through a rendition of every fake farting noise that can be coaxed from the human body and came to a head with an extended lounge jazz breakdown. The Poop Ship never did come through for Ween, but that didn't stop them from delivering a great show for their fans and entertaining the uninitiated. So what if it's all a joke...
...best seller The Overspent American, Schor is known to most undergraduates as the spirited professor of "Shop 'Til You Drop: Gender and Class in Consumer Society" a.k.a., Women's Studies 132. In that class, Schor argues that shopping has been trivialized in this country mainly because of a gender breakdown in which people associate consumption with females and production with males. Contending that the acts of purchasing and shopping are actually a very important component of American society, Schor then critiques the adverse affects of consumerism. For 10 years Schor has analyzed the relationship between marketing techniques and consumer behavior...