Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boyfriend to this flick, and you would be wasting your money to see it in the theater. Practical Magic is one to see with the chicks, if you can bear it, (no guys, Kidman and Bullock don't bare it, this one is rated PG-13). Dreamier than The Craft, Practical Magic is also more childlike, lacking the rebelliousness which previous witch movies have cultivated...
This movie was not even given the benefit of bitchiness that The Craft had going for it. Where Neve Campbell and company reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power...
...would think that the program would teach the writer's craft, not cultural studies. But more than 50 percent of the Expos offerings do just that. We get courses about "American Identities in Everyday Life," "Bi-culturalism and American Identity" and, my favorite, "Popular Culture and Mass Media," a class which examines such watershed films as "The Color Purple" and "The Joy Luck Club." The syllabus boasts an interdisciplinary approach which draws on sociology, Afro-American studies and gender studies--all inarguably indispensable influences on the art of expository composition...
...this round, Jay, Sameera and I have perfected our craft. We have moved into a new room, with round barrel barricades. Advancing as a group of three behind the forts, we surround and capture our prey. Victory is ours and we eat it raw. There is no such thing as going...
...says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from an enormous obdurate weight to a buoyant...