Word: gems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faces of Death" video series (eighth grade angst): Soon-to-be Marilyn Manson-ites learned the beauty of bloodshed watching angry bears attack fat campers in this gem...
...fairy arranges 100 gems in a line. First, she touches each gem. Then she touches every other gem, starting with the second one. Then she touches every third one, starting on the third gem. This pattern continues until she touches every 99th one (which is just the 99th one) and then every 100th one (which is just the 100th one). She tells you that the gems that she has touched an odd number of times will kill you and the ones that she has touched an even number of times will give you eternal life. Which gems kill...
...this one by factors. The first gem has only been touched once, because one only has itself as a factor. The second one has been touched twice, because two has two factors. In fact, all of the numbers have an even number of factors, except for the perfect squares. So only the gems in the positions of perfect squares will kill...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...