Word: exceptionality
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...Used to be, when times got too hard to take... you could go west," says Sam to Freddie during their first long night in a boxcar. But now, he says, "there's no place left to escape to, except places we already run off from." Sam's pessimistic take on the future also pertains to Freddie's plan to travel to Detroit in search of his father. This odyssey takes them across America's underclass, from farmsteads to cities and back again, in a swath that includes all colors and backgrounds...
...Democrats have lost the last two presidential elections and they have no one to blame except themselves, according to Democratic political strategist Steve Jarding...
...teen movie, the one where the camera pans the high school’s sunny front lawn, stopping at each clique long enough to let the skateboarders puff their pot, the jocks flex their muscles, and the cheerleaders bounce their boobs, and then moving on—except Viswanathan never leaves...
...giving the myth a much-needed feminist boost, the two stories of Orpheus on Earth and Eurydice in Hades create a parallel structure—Eurydice comes to accept her reality and Orpheus rejects his, heightening the tension between the two characters, who don’t directly interact (except in scenes that take place in Orpheus’s imagination) until the final scene.Both characters have a sounding board and interlocutor who challenges them to let go of what they hold dear. For Orpheus, it is John, his manager, who periodically comes to his apartment bearing news...
...separation between news and opinion, as well. I chair the news board, and report to our managing editor, as do the chairs of Arts, Sports, and Fifteen Minutes. The managing editor reports to the president. In contrast, however, the chairs of the editorial board report directly to the president. Except for the daily proofer who proofreads the editorial page and checks it for libel the night before publication, the news board has no involvement whatsoever in the production of The Crimson’s editorial positions...