Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given recent history, the University's concern that such an inflammatory event not turn into a free-for-all is understandable. But simple common sense dictates that the administration come up with a way to accredit non-campus media so that the community-at-large may have access to such interesting campus events...
Fortunately, common sense intervened, and Dewitt was able to preserve his majestic form unscathed and unpunctured. This survival enabled him to continue viewing classic pictures, among which is The Marriage of Maria Braun (Somerville Theater). Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this 1978 film tells the tale of post-World-War-II Germany through the life of the title character. A ruthlessly ambitious but visually stunning woman, Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) starts off her career as a whore, servicing American soldiers, blackmarketeers and anyone else who has cash. Braun quickly moves up in the world, settling in with a business firm...
...undistinguished acting of such screen luminaries as Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy and, of course, Judd Nelson. One of the ludicrous features of this flick is that it is billed as an "ensemble" piece, ensemble being used here to signify several uninteresting storylines which are connected with no common theme and only the most superficial circumstance. A more ludicrous feature is the fact that the makers of this turkey used a wretched single by a heretofore unknown potbelly (John Parr) as the title theme, when a great song of the appropriate title by Brian Eno was available. The most...
...settled, the nurse informed me that she had to remove some of that weird red liquid that once did something vital in my body. She also said she had to measure the pressure of the liquid that was still doing something vital in my body. Fine, I thought--common procedure for incoming patients...
Bill and his wife have been homeless for two years, and spend much of their time with their collected belongings on the benches in Cambridge Common. Bill says he hopes to leave the streets soon, and tells Marshall that when a man is his age, it would be nice to have a home to show...