Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with similar aplomb. Proving she is the ART's best comic female actor, Torres moves her body in the same odd fashion as Levin, but she screams, sings, gyrates and disgusts in entirely different ways. She is Jennifer Saunders on crack and Ecstasy at the same time (except with larger breasts, which she reveals to the excited audience...
...accepted; however, there seems to be one group of students here that is constantly misunderstood and biased against--Southerners. As a Crimson Key tour guide, nothing troubles me more than having to show people that Harvard lists the names of all Harvard students who have died in various wars, except the southern students who died in the Civil War. This only tells me that Harvard must find those students from the South as somehow inferior or different from their northern classmates...
Members of the class of '96 were carded hard at the first Senior Bar event, a private party at the Hong Kong. That fact in and of itself was fine, except that the class committee had devised no plan for distinguishing "legal" seniors from those who should be allowed to attend senior events without drinking at them...
...permanence inherent in the law highlights its implicit social critique: our penal system has disintegrated to such a point that it serves no purpose except to keep the criminals off the street. A person walking out of jail is no better than he or she was before entering. Whereas jail was once seen as a place for penitence and growth, where people who went wrong could change themselves and improve, we now associate jail with an overly expensive and dangerous cage. In jail little of value occurs; instead, increased rage is generated. Those who emerge from the prison doors...
...Celluloid Closet is by turns funny and poignant. It interlaces old clips (for instance, a peignoired Cary Grant declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, "I just went gay all of a sudden!") with cogent commentary by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein and others. It should be getting raves at Oscar time--except that, like Crumb and Hoop Dreams last year, Celluloid Closet was denied a nomination by the Academy's documentary committee...