Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind than extending the privileges of upper-class sexual idiocy to people of--or newly emerged from--the contemporary American working class. For all the wildness of his plotting, Burns, expanding the territory he opened up in The Brothers McMullen, is at heart a realist of an interesting kind--cool, nonjudgmental, even genial. He is also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion, currently so popular in political circles, that average Americans, holding to traditional values, bulwark us against the virus of postmodern moral ambiguity. What he's saying in this marvelously dry, sly movie is that...
...away other people's opportunities. It changes their expectations. It makes them accommodate me first." There is a bittersweet quality even to some of the good things gained. The first day he got back to his Williamstown home, "I parked myself on a ramp. It was a beautiful, cool afternoon, and I just looked up at the mountains for about two hours and felt very, very peaceful." Then he adds, "These are things that I thought I would learn to do when...
...walking outside or into the lobby, it gives someone a breaking point," said Chuck Micciche, deputy director of the National Council on Problem Gambling. "It allows them to break their focus on gambling, their compulsive thought process. In some cases, it might give you the time you need to cool down and think about what you're doing." Casino owners see the move as nothing more than a convenience, as ATM and credit card machines are already accessible at casinos. Others see it as sheer madness. "If someone went to a bank and asked for $5,000 saying he wanted...
...walking outside or into the lobby, it gives someone a breaking point," said Chuck Micciche, deputy director of the National Council on Problem Gambling. "It allows them to break their focus on gambling, their compulsive thought process. In some cases, it might give you the time you need to cool down and think about what you're doing." Casino owners see the move as nothing more than a convenience, as ATM and credit card machines are already accessible at casinos. Others see it as sheer madness. "If someone went to a bank and asked for $5,000 saying he wanted...
...come in here almost every day to cruise the Net," says Clifford Granthier, 20. The young Haitian immigrant was among those who used to spend all day on the makeshift basketball court outside the reading room. But as word trickled out that you could find cool pictures of Michael Jordan and the Bulls on the Web, Granthier began spending more and more of his day in cyberspace. His circumnavigations led him to a new interest: desktop publishing. "I'm inspired to start my own business," he says...