Word: handed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...utter awe, I stood inside the concert auditorium for a good ten minutes after the show. I then proceeded to collect the silver confetti lying on the stage in front of me. In silence, teddy-bear in hand, I walked towards the T, trying to avoid a flood of tears. They came anyway. I--a Harvard student (a premed for that matter!)--am a teenybopper. An unashamed, ecstatic teenybopper...
...guns should be registered in a national database. This way, any gun used in a crime could be traced to a recent owner, and the police--rather than the assailant--would have the upper hand...
...with films like American Beauty--the ones that strive to reach beyond the grasp of understanding, the ones that confound. They are difficult and impressive but almost always flawed. Genre movies and silly Hollywood "products" are easy: you always know what you are going to get when you hand over your two bits and your two hours. There is a deep satisfaction in getting exactly what you pay for: a quick roller-coaster, or a good cry, or the fantasy of another life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow; some of the best movies inspire simple...
Spacey finally plays his hand at a most inopportune moment, at his daughter's cheerleading show, in the form of a rejuvinating fantasy vision of his daughter's sexpot best friend Angela. Burning her way into his mind in a blizzard of rose petals, Angela reignites his sex drive, and soon he's claiming to be a new man: weightlifting, quitting work, bitching out his "joyless" wife for her materialism, and getting the 1970 Pontiac Firebird he always wanted. Because Spacey is such a delight to watch, digging into the material with wit, joy, and not a little smugness...
Only a bunch of pediatricians and health officials could celebrate, albeit in a muted kind of way, that toddlers across the nation are shrieking their lungs out. On the one hand, they?re chalking up the highest-ever rates of childhood immunizations, and on the other they?re bemoaning the fact that so many kids still remain out of reach. According to numbers released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, in 1998, 80.6 percent of children 19 to 35 months had the complete series of recommended shots for the big three of childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That...