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...Vardalos has been frantic, on set until 11 every night, she says, trying to make the scripts less sitcomish. "Our mandate in the writers' room is small stories," she says, forcing the writers to avoid the conflicts that organically come from the cultural dissonance she wrote into the film. "What I want is no jokes. I don't want lines like 'Good morning, honey.' 'Not in that shirt it's not!'" The show, however, is still very much a sitcom, with a lot of jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks...
...more centrist "Brazilian Blair," as Brazilian and Wall Street pundits have taken to calling him. So far the mix of social crusade and fiscal discipline has won Lula an 84% approval rating - even though he has yet to score a real achievement - and unexpected applause from Wall Street, where frantic fear of him during last year's election campaign helped push Brazil's currency, the real, down by more than 50% against the U.S. dollar. "The left in Brazil has learned the hard way," says Meirelles, referring to decades of populist economic catastrophes that were finally halted by Lula...
...contrasts are there. Schools in the Texas-Miami orbit have athletes who never see class after frantic pushes to break 800 on the SAT, belong to utterly corrupt conferences (SEC football, anyone?) and basketball teams that don’t graduate half their players. The Ivy League does...
Formed in 1994 and quickly signed to Desoto Records, the Dismemberment Plan employs the standard rock four-piece—singer, guitarist, bassist and drummer. The band quickly earned a strong following and critical applause for their frantic loud-soft, fast-slow, edgy-yet-happy aesthetic, a cross between Gang of Four’s harsh politics and XTC’s wispy romanticism...
...have realized that they can cash in on Valentine’s Day and make some dough off of unexpressed high school angst. The frenzied flower-selling activity in the hallways—“Buy a Rose for Community Service!”—spurs frantic discussion among the cliques. Should you send one to your secret crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets—and often their ubiquitous social...