Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elegance. American Beauty seems to be full of big, revolutionary ideas: that beauty is a whole other world behind images, that we create the rules we live by, that we have caged ourselves and can set ourselves free. But, at heart, these ideas are too obvious and too broad to make the film truly extraordinary, or truly necessary. Do we really need to be told that our suburban utopia isn't all it's cracked up to be, that New Age-y beauty can excuse just about anything...
...says it is hard for ethnic studies to be the basis for a broad-based movement, since it is more esoteric than other causes and sometimes difficult to explain to faculty and students...
Well, chalk one up for the GOP. By packaging a party favorite in a veto-proof $288.9 billion defense bill that includes a military pay raise and a 4.4 percent across-the-board increase in Pentagon spending, Senate Republicans have pushed through a broad reorganization of the Department of Energy that will largely separate the nation?s nuclear labs from the rest of the department. The Republicans say the measures will streamline administration, increase accountability and prevent the kind of embarrassing security snafus that made Wen Ho Lee a household name...
...name shingles derives from cingulum (Latin for belt or girdle) and refers to the fact that the accompanying blisters often cluster in a broad band, typically on just one side of the body. In my case, the skin lesions traced out the end branches of the fifth cranial, or trigeminal, nerve and affected only the left half of my face. In other cases, the lesions might appear on the chest, stomach or back...
...confidant in Wendy Ward (Illeana Douglas), a child star turned hooker. ("She's my prostitute," Dragon tells a flabbergasted underling. "You're my whore.") Fast and aggressive as a Porsche on an L.A. freeway, Action is a little in love with its own transgressiveness, but when it passes up broad, vulgar humor for smart, vulgar humor, it's the best excuse you'll find this fall for kicking the kids out of the living room...