Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers was instructed that if students were to ask about the sex change in class to "tell them to go home and talk to their parents...
...seller of $2.6 million of Saatchi's art last year, was knowingly trying to raise the value of Saatchi's collection. It then filed suit to throw the museum--one of the finest in the country--out of the gracious city-owned building that has been its home for more than 100 years. Supporters rallied to each side, and both the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Catholic League organized pickets...
...precepts were first used in Vinterberg's The Celebration, the family-in-tatters drama that was a worldwide success. Dogme 2 was Von Trier's The Idiots, an aggressive comedy with porno elements. Now come Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's easy-to-take Mifune, about a young businessman who goes home to settle his late father's estate; Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive, set in Namibia and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh; and, opening next week, the first American Dogme film, julien donkey-boy, by genius nasty boy Harmony Korine...
Frank Minna wasn't just any boss. He was the epitome of hustler cool, a guy who offered four teenagers, just about the only whites at a predominantly black orphanage, the distinction of becoming his errand boys. For Essrog the decision was a no-brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles...
Children of prior generations didn't get to go to formal events for their parents, other than funerals. So, by comparison, I guess I'm lucky. And I've developed key coping mechanisms, like buying presents that can't be kept in their home to remind me of my complicity in the union. Things like theater tickets or a gift certificate to a restaurant fit into this category. My mom's suggestion, that we chip in for a Jacuzzi...