Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before. Despite the melodrama and technique slip-ups, Almodvar allows the women to learn about themselves even though each woman creates a new reality within her existence. Manuela pretends to be a poor theater aficionado, Agrado pretends to be a real woman, Huma wishes to run from a heart broken by her cocaine-snorting junkie girlfriend, and Sister Rosa must hide from the order and her parents. Yet in this situation, four women learn that the kindness of strangers and the spontaneous solidarity of women is no fallacy. Acting and repression pave the way for a confrontation with reality; Lola...
...front page of The Battalion, the Texas A&M daily, there was a photograph of the rescue in progress; a young man was trapped between tons of logs, and one could clearly see that his legs were broken in several places, twisting in the most unnatural of directions...
...when you're more concerned about your hair dripping than your thighs jiggling, you'll know that your priorities are so far out of whack that you've broken into Southern California's gym culture. Welcome to the jungle...
...used to be a lot of special charges for taking certain courses, for example). We've actually eliminated several small charges over the past five years by folding them into the general costs of going to college here. It seems petty and annoying to see this one charge still broken out; the person paying it (typically a parent) might reasonably say, "For heavens' sake, just tell me what it costs to go to Harvard and stop the nickling and diming...
...turning to the contentious domestic issue of abortion is certainly not the appropriate solution. While the terms of this negotiation have finally broken the deadlock between the White House and Congress, it has drawn scathing criticism from abortion rights activists and Democratic presidential frontrunners Vice-President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. And for good reason...