Word: damns
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...mind.”HIGHER EDUCATIONThe concept of luck naturally turns up in conversation and Johansson is the first to admit that, had she received a few more failed casting calls, she might be on the other end of this phone conversation.“I feel like a damn lucky person,” she says. “I have friends who are seniors in college who are graduating this year and who still don’t know what the hell they want to do with their lives. I feel lucky to have a passion...
...files ... which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling [during "the trial of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders"]. It was not that very many people objected to flushing out Communists ... But it was a suspicion that any such collection was bound to damn the innocent as well as the guilty ... In a nation where nobody loves a cop ... the further question arose: Had the U.S. created a budding Gestapo? ... As long as the U.S. felt the need to keep G-man Hoover checking up on its fellow citizens, the uneasy feeling was bound...
...eight albums of early Ray Charles a little much? Damn straight. The makers of this boxed set exercise no restraint, but they do include some fascinating stuff. Skip the well-worn hits, and go right to the song sketches to hear how Charles felt his way toward redefining American pop music. And if you somehow make it to disc eight, the reward is a recording of the legendary moment when record executive Ahmet Ertegun sang a bizarre-- but not at all bad-- version of What'd I Say to convince Charles of the song's potential...
...Because I don't have 11 slots and can't make a damn decision. But also because these sitcoms deserve to be considered together (as I did in this feature in September). Both shows proved a network sitcom could be both good and popular. Each show had a distinctive voice: on Earl, that of a good-at-heart petty crook (Jason Lee) trying to make his life right, on Chris, the hard-edged nostalgia of narrator Chris Rock, looking back on his childhood in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. They share another, less fortunate attribute: neither show has developed its characters much...
...says. “I don’t want to say I feel guilty about the wealth I have. But I’m ashamed that we’ve gotten to the point in this country where we believe that being poor is just your own damn fault...