Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nostalgic mood yet? If the opening of ABC's Homefront doesn't get you, try CBS's Brooklyn Bridge, a fond look back at growing up in Brooklyn circa 1956. NBC's I'll Fly Away, meanwhile, paints a moodier watercolor of life in a Southern town in the late '50s, just as the civil rights movement was gathering steam. In a medium that is usually more comfortable with the here and now, the timely issue and the hip wisecrack, three of the most ambitious shows of the new season are harking back to the past...
...networks are very fond of these low-budget reality shows, but one downside is that they distort reality for viewers whose only moral and educational influence is television. People who really want to be on TV might try to submit a video to air on "America's Funniest Home Videos," but would readily settle for a spot on "America's Most Wanted" instead...
...whole group seemed to be taking it pretty well, actually. I was growing fond of them. There's a contingent from Tennessee. There's mellow Clara. There's Vinnie, who'll be studying Italian so he can talk to his grandparents. And there's Radi, his roommate from Jordan who already speaks Italian. Chris Lees used to repair computers in California. He gave me his business card. "For you, Josh, it'll be on the house," he said...
...purest, slimiest form (see above), plagiarism is basically a bad thing. This kind of plagiarism entails dishonesty, thievery and stupidity--all things of which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline...
TRUST. Typical Hal Hartley dialogue: "Will you trust me?" "If you trust me first." In this deadpan romance, the writer-director limns the palship of a pregnant high schooler (Adrienne Shelly) and a sociopath genius (Martin Donovan). Another fond sketch of losers from the down-scale version of Woody Allen...