Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as more and more computer-wise workers will earn their keep from home offices, a growing number of students can expect to get their degrees without ever setting foot on campus. Susan Lerner, 40, of Burnt Ranch, Calif., is doing so now. An elementary school teacher at a remote Hupa Indian reservation, she has enrolled in a new M.A. program in educational technology offered by George Washington University in Washington, 2,500 miles away. Lerner takes two four-hour courses a week, beamed to her via the satellite dish in her yard, and keeps in touch with her professors...
...pieces fit logically. Three yuppieish children who ungratefully depose their father in the interest of fiscal stability are stand-ins for the whole indulged baby-boom generation. The burnt-out father, who obsesses about the past and about a supposed universal abandonment of standards, epitomizes a dying elitist culture. But while the children emerge with convincing particularity, all Ron Rifkin's fiery righteousness and icy brilliance cannot make plausible the contrived second act, which centers on the father's buying and burning an original painting by Hitler...
Miguel: Ah, Lau-ren. A body like poetry and eyes like burnt caramel flan. I can tell by the way she dances that her soul is tuned to the great cosmic pulse. She moves like dough being kneaded by the hands...
...horror be just blunt enough for just long enough, then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with the unexpected, sometimes twice within a few words: just after her rape, the girl regains pride by scorning childish pleasures, saying she feels she is "a woman now -- an old woman." And she utterly avoids self- pity. Instead...
...supporters have usually been those who also supported legalized marijuana, and legalized LSD and legalized glue sniffing. In the 1970s and earlier '80s, medicinal marijuana gained support from many doctors, but it was too late--the movement was inextricably associated with a lunatic fringe of burnt-out hippies making their last pathetic effort to salvage the '60s. In the Reagan-Bush years, that kind of coalition just doesn't float...