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...silence because he "hates everyone." As they are reluctantly dragged along with the Hoover family to help Olive pursue her dream to become a beauty queen, Frank and Dwayne begin to open up. Their own dreams have been crushed, but with Olive's unadulterated hopes as their catalyst, they are able to put their suffering in perspective and learn to feel again. In a particularly perfect scene, Frank explains to Dwayne that Proust was a "total loser" who eventually realized that the times that he suffered were the best times, since they were the times that made...
...associate show producer on Top Model, says she and her partner crafted 250 hours of raw footage into a full script with characters and storylines. "We don't put the words in the contestants' mouths, but a photo shoot and a watchable episode is created," says Bowe. Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that's just not true...
...Radicalizing But the extent of al-Qaeda's role is a minor concern, compared with the need to understand the bombers' motivation. What triggers young Muslims' interest in the ideology of extremist Islamic organizations? Research indicates that for many, the invasion and occupation of Iraq has been an important catalyst. Measures designed to prevent terrorism can also have the undesired effect of further radicalizing young Muslims. Many young British Muslims feel that an attempt to change the law to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for up to 90 days, and the use of control orders to incarcerate...
...that people couldn't gamble 24 hours a day and that despite the house's best efforts, they still had disposable income to spend outside the gaming halls. Gordon was there when blackjack met Louis Vuitton and Cirque du Soleil. His Forum Shops at Caesars Palace were a catalyst for transforming Sin City into Shop City; today those stores are among the top grossing in the country on a dollars-per-sq.-ft. basis...
...fears justified? Almost certainly not. As Harvard students learn during Harvard-Yale weekend, and as Germans are presently learning while their football hopes stay alive, expressing one’s pride of place is intensely satisfying, and contributes to building valuable community cohesion.Curiously, in each case, some kind of catalyst is needed to make individuals embrace their long-lost identities. As superficial as cheering on one’s national soccer team, or drunkenly taunting one’s collegiate rival may be, these experiences release the repressed identities that Germans and Harvardians alike traditionally conceal.After every Harvard-Yale game...