Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both characters are imbeciles. They read an entire library and get nothing out of it except the illusion of understanding. But, in the eighth chapter, in the most famous passage of the entire novel, Flaubert writes that "a lamentable faculty arose in their spirits, that of seeing stupidity and no longer being able to tolerate it. They were saddened by insignificant things: the advertisements in the newspapers, the profile of a bourgeois, a mindless remark overheard by chance...
...correspondent I felt safe except for the same things as everyone, such as falling off a cliff on the edge of a road," she said. "I was never afraid for my life in Bogota or traveling through the country and never received a threat. My accent protected me and gave me greater access...
...these performers, however, manage to make their roles their own. Except Claire Danes, who in the title role is nothing short of a great detriment to the film. Even if the viewer does not recognize her as Angela from "My So-Called Life" or Juliet from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, her voice is absolutely grating. Princess Mononoke is a poor translation of Mononoke Hime, which more literally means "Spirit/Monster/Ghost Princess"--there is nothing remotely spiritual, monstrous or ghostly about Danes' Princess Mononoke. While her behavior and lines present Princess Mononoke as a tough, dangerous, furious woman, she sounds...
...really, there's little that's truly smutty about Nerve, except maybe the plethora of darkened "provocative" crotch shots. All of the writing tends toward the literate side, but it's boring. The personal revelations are clinically detached and dull ("I walked around naked...I had sex in a car..." and so on, making you expect "I had sex in an outhouse...when I was 12 I masturbated with a stapler" and so forth), and the other intellectual material is less than insightful. The most interesting article on the site at present: Dmitri Nabokov's essay on copyright laws...
Before applying, offenders would have to perform public service, get a GED, complete drug therapy if needed and remain conviction-free for five years. The records would be sealed except for law enforcement and for future criminal proceedings...