Word: functions
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What's worse, that ship is packed with standard-issue fools, whose function is to react badly to all the movie's fires, floods and explosions. In this melee it's hard to develop characters we can get behind. Sandra Bullock, of course, is back as Annie, but the combination of pluck and vulnerability that made her so winsome in the Ur-Speed is missing here. This time she exists mainly to get tied up and abducted by Willem Dafoe, an actor who can never quite transcend (or enjoy) his inherent weirdness the way Dennis Hopper does. Jason Patric...
...Boston University, where they were both students, to the University of Southern California, she followed. The real lure? "The California weather." (Now he works for her, when he's not playing in his underground techno band.) Running a 25-employee company has not cramped Mohajer's slacker style. "I function like an average human being of my age. I go to clubs, movies and watch MTV," she says. "It's so fun! I'm a TV junkie. I need to go to Melrose Anonymous! Eating Cap'n Crunch and watching TV--two things I live for. Twice a week...
Believe in institutions, but do not marry them. Establishments exist to moderate; they look for function. You are likely to work for some company or other, but keep a safe distance. There is no contempt as bitter as that felt by compromised minds for the independent ones that have joined them. Grin broadly at the water cooler, and go home to where you live...
...States ambassador to the United Nations and as a member of the National Security Council, Albright was the clear choice to succeed Warren Christopher as our nation's highest foreign policy adviser. As President Clinton articulated, Albright has steely determination as well as a clear understanding of her dual function as a leading cabinet member and a female role model. We see that the second follows from the first, as she herself indicated in her own metaphor to outgoing Secretary Christopher: I hope my heels can fill your shoes. Madeline Albright has broken through the very thick glass ceiling...
...like to believe Eliot was thinking of Harvard when he wrote these lines. For that is Harvard's function: to give us the license to explore, for a heady four years, the boundaries of knowledge in one hub of the universe. And then to let us return where we came from, ready to share what we have learned...