Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What do you get when you throw together a few three-eyed monsters, a polymorphic silver suit that dances to Caribbean rhythms, an ambitious television news reporter who can't leave his car without getting his jacket stuck in the door, a Martian whose idea of a good time is eating about 30,000 gallons of ice cream (give or take a few) and a scientist who examines mucous-like substances by tasting them? My Favorite Martian, an entertaining Disney concoction whose lively physical comedy and occasionally amusing one-liners barely compensate for a weak plot line and nauseatingly cliched...
...evening. He had come into town for the weekend to spend some quality time with his big brother, and I figured that reviewing a couple of underground films would be a great excuse to get off campus at least once during his visit. It had seemed like a great idea at the time, but as we meandered farther and farther from civilization, I began to wonder if perhaps I had made a judgement error in dragging my sibling away from the warmth and shelter of the Yard...
...person I talked to who answered the phone at UHS at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning had no idea how to deal with me--and there was, according to the voice on the phone, no one else around who could take my call," she wrote in an e-mail message...
...idea that an Ad Board can find someoneguilty of rape without counsel...that's wrong,"says Steven B. Duke, a professor specializing incriminal procedure at Yale Law School. "Theyshould have the right to [have] counsel presentand participating...
...idea dating back to Horace Mann is thatthe board should be isolated from the hurly-burlyof politics," he said. "I'd hope we would send amessage back to the original intent...