Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there are the supporting characters--amazingly transformed into walking and talking jokes and little more. Judge glaringly neglects these personages, especially Gibbons' buddies at Initech, Samir (Ajay Naidu) and the nominally cursed Michael Bolton (David Herman). The cast of Office Space is, essentially, a cast of cartoon characters or caricatures, only two of which arguably come off: Lumberg and Milton (Steven Root), a pathetic co-worker at Initech who is bound for disgruntled postal worker or serial killer status...
...leaves the office in a Zen state of unshakable relaxation, having finally decided simply "not to go" to his job. The transition is complete when he breaks up with the girlfriend and begins courting a waitress, played by Jennifer Aniston, who fits in perfectly with this under-talented cast. Gibbons does return to work, however, and his new attitude inexplicably impresses two new executives hired to clean house at Initech, resulting in his promotion and the release of Samir and Michael. Now vowing revenge on the company, the three friends plant a computer virus that rounds off transactions and places...
...urinal turns his head to caution his buddy entering the restroom, "Watch out, somebody zooped in here!" I've never heard of zooping before, but I sure as hell know what he means. I am a beginner, a student learning the vernacular of the Kong. Tonight I meet the cast of characters...
...Hill has been one of a cast of four seniors--including captain Paul Fisher, shooting guard Mike Beam, center Bill Ewing and guard Chris Dexter--that has put Harvard basketball...
...boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light. In this painting the rectangles of the brown room with its wide wallboards and alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond. The light slants, giving De Hooch an opportunity to complicate his verticals and horizontals with a diagonal bar of shadow cast by the window transom on the half-open shutter. Some surfaces receive the light directly, others obliquely...