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That a musical about teen sexuality is angsty is not unexpected and therefore not an automatic strike against it. Yet one can express universal coming-of-age sentiments without the clichéd imagery of mythical battles and lyrics that aim at emotional complexity but couch them in overly simple terms...
...honest, is this game gonna stink? Well, it's the Super Bowl, so we're assuming the most suspenseful thing going on during the fourth quarter is the painting of the guy who drank too much and passed out on the couch. But someone owes us a favor for the Ravens-Giants Super Dud of a year ago, so maybe the football gods will be kind in 2002. The most promising aspect of the game is contained in this fact: The Patriots just took down a Raiders team that flawlessly routed the Jets and a beat a very physical Steelers...
...that. I want to go out and slide around like normal people who go skiing instead of having to make perfect carving turns the entire way down the mountain. But to be really honest, what I want to do when I get done skiing is just sit on my couch, watch some TV and catch up with what?s going on in America right...
...elaborate place, a shamelessly opulent expanse of wood-paneled walls, gold-gilded mirrors, massive chandeliers and bulletproof windows (glass by Ferdinand Marcos; the rest, straight-up Imelda). Arroyo, who always dresses for the occasion, is wearing a deep purple suit, sitting up toward the edge of a couch with her hands in her lap. She's short, of course, under five feet, an easy target for people who attack her leadership by mocking her size (typical comment: "her policies are as diminutive...
This is not just a potato problem. It's also a problem with white bread, bagels and most white rice. But couch potatoes don't have to give up their spuds altogether, as long as they eat them in moderation. Or they could switch to sweet potatoes and yams, which metabolize less rapidly and wreak less havoc with blood sugar...