Word: drews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton drew a warm response from her audience as she shared her trademark personal-encounter stories, focusing on students she had met who had been positively impacted by the arts. She said she believes firmly in the role the arts play as an alternative to guns, drugs and violence...
...market their shows to young theatergoers. Rent distributes book covers in schools. Hedwig hands out postcards at rock clubs and has created logo stickers for backpacks and skateboards. These efforts, of course, can help attract more than just skateboarders. "Once people hear that the younger folks are going," says Drew Hodges, whose Spotco agency created the ad campaigns for De La Guarda and other shows, "there's a real aspirational crowd that is 30 to 45 and wants to be in the same places as the trend makers who are 22." Young trend makers going to the theater--imagine that...
...embrace the comfortably cute rather than the disturbingly acute--especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...
...instance, to parallel the sibling rivalry that Tommy and Dil are dealing with, Stu and his brother Drew bring up deep-seated fraternal arguments from their childhood, only to have them neatly wrapped up at the end of the film without a word of explanation. More dramatic than this sibling rivalry theme is Tommy's dilemma: to stay loyal to his best friend Chuckie or to fulfill his responsibility to his new brother. In fact, "sponsitility" plays an almost annoyingly large part in the storyline, giving a weird allegorical bent to the movie. These rather adult topics don't merge...
...least) occur in the beginning of the movie, before Dil is ever born. For example, at the baby shower, Tommy's aunt airily tells the expectant mother, "You know what they say: born under Venus, look for a--" before being neatly cut off by her cell phone. And Drew, when his daughter demands to know why she is being left at her cousin Tommy's house for the day, sweetly explains that "Daddy has to work overtime so Mommy won't be ashamed of his corporate earnings...