Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, no new ground is really broken byJawbreaker. It's not a terrible movie, butits frankness, blunt honesty and morbid subjectmatter render it a movie for those with strongstomachs and an even darker sense of humor. Itsone triumph is its success in pinpointing the oneuniversal truth of high school. Forget Satan andall of his minions; the embodiment of pure evil inhigh school wears dark lipstick and miniskirts...
...stunts. It screams designer soundtrack and even more designer reality, every honest fiber of your being wants to oppose it. In your snider moments, you deprecate that you could write this screenplay your-self. Let's be honest about it: Robert Iscove's debut film feature breaks no new ground...
...garrulous, energized concertgoers and electrified bands filled the evening with intoxicating ambience. And the closed windows didn't help much. As far as student culture is concerned, the confluence of the artsy upper tier and bohemian dredges made the room feel conspicuously distant from the normal Harvard middle ground. Although there were a few stragglers, they were quickly consumed or expelled...
Another example: Liebman happily raved about how great it is to find money. "I found $20. It was just sitting there." She looked toward the ground. "In the tip jar at Starbucks...
...Milosevic knows that NATO knows that sending in ground troops, however unpleasant (and risky), is strategically preferable to air strikes -- bombers over Kosovo would have little efficacy as peacekeepers. So as the Saturday deadline nears for the ongoing negotiations in Paris, it's time for Milosevic to squeeze the mediators for all he can get before giving in. If he doesn't, then NATO will have to send in the bombs, as promised. Much death and destruction will ensue, with little risk for the 2,200 U.S. Marines waiting in the Mediterranean for a go-ahead. But that's been...