Word: fall
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...totalcontempt but constantly seek the validation of thefamily in all they do. Thus even though RobertLowell would come to publish book after bookflagrantly railing against the Winslows and theLowells, he would as a child constantly seek theaccolades of his grandfather Arthur Winslow. Yearslater, Stuart in desperation decides to fall backon her sense of family honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool, and Stuart out of some sense ofrestitution, a keen...
This provision will take effect next fall forall four classes...
...could, of course, be causing more mayhem in real bodies so they try to switch into the bodies of two Noxzema models by obtaining a magic medallion buried along with Chucky's human corpse (not that this matters much to the movie or makes much sense). The teens that fall into this trap are completely immemorable, cast as they were by looks...
What elevates Chucky into the sublime, though, is the little things: Jennifer Tilly thrusting her pelvis in perhaps the least subtle come-on in screen history, the movie's weird obsession with killing people by electrocution, the frequent unexplained continuity errors, its pointless and empty pop-culture references which fall endearingly flat, and pearls of dialogue like, "I'll kill anybody, but I'll only sleep with someone I love" and "Martha Stewart can kiss my shiny plastic butt...
That may not sound like a big deal, but I find that it defines the person I've become. Humans are supposedly superior to other creatures because they have the ability to reason and make rational decisions. But I think that we, too, often fall into the path of least resistance...