Word: exigente
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When a plainclothes police detective appeared at her DeWolfe dorm room on a Friday night asking to enter in search of loud music, Cat P. Walleck ’06 was suspicious. There clearly was no noise coming from her room, she says, and she was reluctant to let him...
Gross says that while he realizes he will have to divide his attention, he has promised to take on several of the most exigent student-life issues personally. He has promised to address the most pressing concerns facing student groups, embracing space and social alternatives to late-night drinking as...
Admittedly, the above examples deal with students at the very top of the class. It could be argued that the brightest students will shine no matter what, and that grade inflation is more a problem for students in the middle of the class, between whom it becomes impossible to draw...
One True Thing, a patient, unforced adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel by screenwriter Karen Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain...
As directed by Tom Shadyac, there's enough surrealism in Liar Liar to content all but the most exigent Carrey fans. But there's something worrisome about the film's attempts to socialize and sentimentalize the '90s' designated anarchist. It's wrong to push characters like Carrey's toward mainstream...