Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel as "a neo-maxi zoom dweebie," explains that he faked...
...loan exhibition of "Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550," on view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum through June 22, is the kind of show that one hopes to see in a great encyclopedic institution like the Met. It is not, in the common show-biz sense, a blockbuster. It takes a fascinating but unfamiliar subject and handles it with immense art- historical skill. It enlarges one's sense of civilization...
...disagree with this editorial, let me know. Stand up on a soapbox and denounce my logic. If you really can't control yourself, come and discuss it with me. But please, please don't build towers in protest of this editorial in my common room. Don't get mad; get active...
...making Walker its star witness, the prosecution is "using the shark to catch the minnow." Whitworth's defense may rest on Walker's testimony that the master spy never informed his friend that the stolen secrets were destined for the Soviets. In his final testimony, however, Walker said that "common sense" should have told Whitworth just who the buyer...
...corporate conduct in South Africa have encouraged companies to remain in the country and fight apartheid from within, has urged corporations to push even harder. Said Sullivan: "Our signatories have to do more to support the rights of blacks to work where they want, to integrate neighborhoods, to establish common amenities...