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...overprotective mother, takes a job as maid for the Clasky family to keep an eye on her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), at night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy??the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when Cristina asserts towards...

Author: By Bryant Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Spanglish | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...just as easy to make fun of Harvard for some of its ‘cheesy?? rituals, such as rubbing John Harvard’s foot for good luck,” he said. “This in particular is such a peculiar ritual, and one that strikes me as a tourist practice that was somewhat co-opted by the Harvard community...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time Honored Traditions...in Two Months | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

Well, I found my answer in the hockey mask of Gerry “Cheesy?? Cheevers, the Bruins goalie of the 1970 and 1972 Stanley Cup champions. A strange choice, perhaps, to explain all the emotions that sports have imbued within them, but something about this mask makes sense...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FleetCenter Is A Living Testament To Boston Sports History | 3/11/2003 | See Source »

...that takes Cappy into Somerville has only crossed a city line, but he has crossed into a world in which he has detailed knowledge of every storefront, house and street. The first thing we see is Massive Video, a rental store Cappy thinks is “cheesy?? but noteworthy because the building used to house a different, sleazier video store which he says was actually run out of business by the cops for repeatedly overcharging customers...

Author: By Matt L. Siegel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Somervillian | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...among others) while in middle school, and Transeau was to become an important early collaborator. Despite gaining a significant underground following, success in the mainstream still took several years for Deep Dish to achieve, especially in what they called the “cheesy?? clubs of Washington. Their first production credit came with the 1992 Moods album A Feeling, followed by their first remix in 1993 of Angela Marn’s “Slippin and Slidin.” Only in 1998 did Deep Dish achieve international prominence with their critically acclaimed debut album, Junk Science...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deep Dish, No Cheese | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

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