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...want you to get me pregnant."), resourceful (she nurses the wounded Postman through a bitter winter with nothing but leaves, water and a couple of bowls of horse soup), and a much better fighter than the Postman (she's deadly accurate with an AR-15). To the story's detriment, her character fades into obscurity in the film's latter half. Larenz Tate does his best with the impoverished role of angry young black man Ford Lincoln Mercury. And then, of course, there is Tom Petty, in all of his potheaded glory--a real treat for all Pettyphiles out there...
...Indeed, judging by media reaction, the initiative is in danger of becoming hamstrung on the issue of affirmative action to the detriment of deeper concerns...
...surpasses the artistic merit of her two EPs on Seattle's Kill Rock Stars label; the pieces are more adult than the "high school bedroom songs' she's sung for so many years. Got No Shadow also features full band backup on most songs, which could either be a detriment or a complement to her usually acoustic style...
Comparative politics student Mark E. Duckenfield says statistics and quantitative methods, not rational choice, have become the center of the department's focus, sometimes to the detriment of scholarship...
...Deborah Eappen who was popularly demonized, stereotyped as the "do-it-all, want-it-all" workingwoman and part-time mother, becoming an unwitting defendant in the murder of her own baby. The public saw her and her husband Sunil as rich doctors selfishly pursuing their careers to the detriment of their children. Worse, they were said to be cheap. Didn't they know that Woodward was an au pair and not a nanny? Au pairs are young women brought over to the U.S. under a cultural-exchange program and then expected to work as full-time child minders with little...