Word: bum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director Alan Shapiro's script, Sandy (Elijah Wood) is a virtual orphan, with his generation's patented passive insolence, who is exiled to the Bahamas to live with his beach-bum uncle Porter (Paul Hogan). Sandy meets Flipper the dolphin and slowly opens up. The bad guys try to kill Flipper, and...Hands, class! Who wants to finish this plot synopsis...
Thomas F. Kelly strides up and down the stage of Paine Hall. The hall is crowded with attentive listeners and Kelly's voice fills the perfect acoustics. Suddenly he bursts into song: "Bum bum BUM bum bum bum bum BUM...
...probably won't talk with a bum in Harvard Square about the material in this class," he said that day. "You probably won't ever see any of these readings again. So why bother to take the class...
...summed up in the image of Robert Mapplethorpe, that slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine while sticking bullwhips up his bum. In fact, Mapplethorpe neither got nor asked for one cent from the NEA to make the photos that caused the offense; a museum did that, for a show of his work. And he died a multimillionaire because of the ranting queer hatred of Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan and the religious right...
...promoted to the No. 2 spot, Freeh boasted, "He is the very best the FBI has." Last week Freeh said Potts was "unable to effectively perform his duties" and reassigned his friend to the FBI's training division in Quantico, Virginia. Many agents felt that Potts was getting a bum rap; they believe he was one of the agency's staunchest defenders of civil rights principles...