Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Michael Shin's production, set and lighting effects are minimal (and ill-handled), and Shin focuses on his actors instead of their surroundings. This is probably a wise decision given the limitations of the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Shin does wonders with costumes. He has turned three teenagers into very convincing looking ma, pa, and China Mama, using hairstyle and clothing to age the young faces...
...peculiar bind. The audience of the game show in Running Man represents a bloodthirsty society, a bunch of middle-class husbands and housewives and some little old ladies vehemently cheering on what amounts to a gladiator show. We laugh at this absurdity when members of the audience are given door prizes for choosing the stalkers, but in the very next scene we find ourselves cheering for some of the violence, too. When the studio audience stops cheering for the stalkers and starts cheering for Schwarzenegger, it suddenly becomes clear that the two audiences are one and the same. The audience...
...inquire about other forms of vice and lawlessness? Rather than focusing on drug use a decade ago, perhaps we should have investigated Ginsburg's respect for law as manifested in his private life during the past year, while he was a federal judge. It certainly would have given us a better picture of this new-fangled, post-pot, law'n'order Ginsburg...
Perhaps most impressive for the young netminder, he stopped cold the Bruin and Bulldog power-plays in 11 efforts. Janfanza and Captain Steve Armstrong must also be given credit for outstanding penalty-killing play...
Kennedy said more encouragement had to be given to those illegal immigrants who were not eager to apply for citizenship due to their fears of confusion and helplessness at arrival at the center...