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...There are numerous other examples of pop culture overcoming taboos, from the title character??s abortion on Maude in the 70s to the Sex and the City girls’ frank discussion of women’s sexual preferences in the last decade...
...frustration, or doubt. The steadiness of his character serves as a counterpoint for the changing dynamics among the other eleven jurors. Musen’s greatest opponent in the room is Juror #3 (Jeffrey C. Witt ’09). Witt not only takes on the violence of his character??s desire to see the boy sent to the chair; he deftly portrays the depth of the man’s character underneath his anger. Although initially repulsive, Witt brings out his character??s underlying humanity. Strong performances on the part of the secondary characters...
This country certainly is facing an obesity epidemic, across all ages, but the notion that the solution is the defilement of a popular character??s sole characteristic is pointless and ineffective. Following this same line of thinking, Oscar the Grouch ought to go through a happy streak, one that would hopefully overcome childhood depression, (for that matter Oscar needs to stop living in a trash can; the number of kids following his example there is on the rise...
...language with glamorized descriptions of the urban, partially adopting the interior monologue of each character. This strange fluctuation between the omniscient, descriptive voice and the informal internal voice can occur even in the same sentence. When the muscular punk Ponyboy rides his bike through the desert, Bock welds the character??s vocabulary together with an acute sense of the details of Las Vegas’ man-made oasis of asphalt and neon: “Ponyboy’s style was hauling ass, blazing through the smoldering afternoons, pedaling like hell over blacktop that had steam rising...
...hilarious and absurd as it is disturbing.When not in an insane asylum, one character spends his life producing 500-page-plus refutations of philosophers ranging from Voltaire to Rousseau, including a five-volume critique of Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness.” Another character??s play combines scenes of rape with a masturbation contest (judged in three categories: thickness, length, “and, most importantly, distance covered by semen”) between the ambassadors of three nations. A third character writes a poem called “Concentration Camp?...