Word: ideals
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This alternation of the mock-epic and the earthy proved an ideal technique in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Graham Chapman's snooty King Arthur deserved to have shit flung upon him. In Jabberwocky, a 1976 bomb starring two Python members, the mock-epic dropped out entirely and left the cast wallowing in a cesspool of gore and unbearable toilet humor. Life of Brian returns to the successful formula of Holy Grail, spoofing a genre of film and its directorial cliches with both skillful imitation and derision...
...attended public schools there and went on to tax-supported Boston Latin School. The experience gave him a lifelong interest in public education and, he once said, "a sense of gratitude for what the American public school system did for me ... [It] translated into reality the American ideal of equality and opportunity...
...after discovering how exercise helped her slim down for her bikini-clad role in California Suite. "I started classes, five times a week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy...
...letdown is especially upsetting because Apocalypse Now seemed the ideal marriage of a major artist to an important subject. Except for Stanley Kubrick, no other contemporary American director is as gifted as Francis Coppola. In his classic Godfather films, he proved that great themes-power, family, violence, love, morality-could be expressed in the richest language of popular moviemaking...
...hour final exam. In other words, many of the students who do well in these courses pull it off by doing nothing all semester and then spending the two-week Reading Period doing just that to prepare themselves for the exam. You can guess that this is not the ideal way to learn a subject so that you'll remember...