Word: chalkboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...
...become somewhat of a joke at meetings to mention Crimson commentaries on the UC. Some meetings begin with a laugh, a strained one though, at excerpts read from some article or editorial covering the previous week's meeting. Some chalkboard scraping misquotation is related. A front page article dancingly sidesteps most of a debate, reporting just enough of it to create the opinion in the readers' minds that "Yeah, these guys really are lame...
...that the picture will be a hit -- not because it is so smart about many small things but because it is so shameless in promoting its one big thing. Like the other sigh-fi movies, Regarding Henry says any mortal catastrophe offers an opportunity to erase the chalkboard mess we have made of our lives. We can make amends and have great sex too. By serving up comfy antidotes to illness and death, these movies provide a seductively meretricious form of release: New Age religion on the cheap. How like Hollywood to insist that the slogging drama of most people...