Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book...
...ESSAY: Is there really anything new about the new world order...
CROSS MY HEART. A 12-year-old's mother has died, and his schoolmates conspire to keep the tragedy a secret. In this comic essay on the desperate ingenuity of youth, director Jacques Fansten nicely reworks a long-held credo of French filmmakers: that childhood is both charmed and cursed...
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