Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...iMacs that have proliferated like so many hothouse orchids on campus. It turns out a splash of royal purple was just what Loker Commons needed, and the cherry red monitors lined up in the Science Center add a touch of brightness to that dreary trek to our Science B core. Annoying commercials aside (how dare they use Gandhi and Einstein for advertising, let alone Lucille Ball), the computers themselves seemed like...
...York. Anyway, near an urban area. I'd have kids; I'd be done with kids. Three or four. The person I marry has to make me laugh. I hold a lot of stock in funny people. He'd have to be, at his core and good at showing it, a very kind and gentle person. Also because I fancy myself a kind and gentle person. I don't fancy myself marrying a banker or a lawyer or consultant. And he's gotta love my mom. It's a package deal. You can't have one without the other...
...sharp acting, led by Hanks' pained restraint. The two villains are vigorously portrayed: a sadistic, craven guard (Doug Hutchison) and a strutting, rabid inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that breathed so easily in Shawshank is often forced here. Grandstanding reaction shots of teary guards cue us to John Coffey's miraculous power as surely as the big man's initials hint at his majesty...
Even a hard-core pessimist must agree that things are looking up when the most immediate worry at the end of the 20th century is that computers won't know what time it is just after midnight, Dec. 31. Or that the threat of a genuine apocalypse has been downgraded from a swift nuclear winter to the palmy dangers of slow global warming...
...core of the anti-trade movement is the leftover left, Orwell's old gang. Having had little to do since the fall of the "socialist camp" a decade ago, the left finally found its voice in Seattle. "In the '60s, I marched for peace and justice," explained a Seattle demonstrator. "Now I'm back...