Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both King Ralph (written and directed by David Ward) and Scenes from a Mall (directed by Paul Mazursky from a screenplay he wrote with Roger Simon) offer their stars the kind of discombobulating contexts their well-established characters need to function funnily. But curiously enough, it is the film with the more outrageously improbable premise that works best. As the man who wouldn't be King if he could help it, Goodman redeems what might have been just another high-concept comedy for the party of humanity. Despite the fact that they are working a much more subtle idea...
...know, he should tell us. If he is concerned about issues of liability, he should be up front and tell us. So far he hasn't. The College should not limit the ability of students to make these vital cost-benefit calculations. The restrictions undermine an important function of college life--to provide an arena in which students make these kinds of decisions without a watchful parent or guardian to oversee them...
...board, and similar enforcement bodies in other universities, claim that an important part of their disciplinary function is to prevent students from taking actions harmful to others. Under the definitions in the hate speech guidelines, Hann's shouting epithets was clearly considered a harmful action...
Hall says that the consistent weakness of the department is a function of the University's traditions of hiring rather than of purposeful scheming on the part of administrators. "There are people who feel that purposeful neglect led to the decline of the department. But I believe it could have happened otherwise. I admit it does look suspicious but I don't subscribe to the theory of an explicit conspiracy...
...said the legislature could function "as long as the Lithuanian people consider it necessary...