Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...muse seems superfluous until you remember that Smith's core audience is teenagers. Fiorentino is the only actor among her heavenly posse, and she handles her role as the skeptical "last Scion" in a way that puts the comic relief's performances to shame. What excuses some of the ill-delivered lines and questionable characters is the enthusiasm you can feel the performers have for this movie (many took pay cuts to work on Dogma). They know that the film will be hotly debated, but they remain loyal to their desire to work with Smith and make Dogma succeed...
...This mix of jealousy and wounded pride proves a dangerous intoxicant; Bartelby later rebukes God, drunk with self-importance. It is this egotism that is God's foe, growing stronger with every ill-conceived rationalization Bartelby spews, until it is of Luciferian proportions. Not until the theophany of the last scene does the sight of the kind, matriarchal God reminds us that Bartelby's self-deification is something other than prideit is frustration with the fact that God loves him differently than She loves man. And we feel for Bartelby,, who is at last a soulful child, vying...
...crops here in the U.S. Opponents charge that by changing the makeup of foods to increase productivity or enhance favorable characteristics, the companies are forcing "Frankenstein" crops on the public. Biotech companies have been hush-hush about their products in the U.S., hoping to avoid a repeat of their ill-fated marketing campaigns in Europe, which were met with damaging protests and plummeting profits. But a rising tide of public distrust in the U.S. has prompted a broad campaign to help define the debate on more favorable terms here...
...senior advisory committee, including famous members like Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), works with SAC to aid the IOP's full-time staff in making decisions...
...information is automatically patched through to a secure website that contains all her medical records. If anything alarming, such as a spot of blood or some defective DNA, shows up, both she and her physician will receive a health-care alert. By the same token, if she ever falls ill while traveling, doctors can instantly punch up her records, using her medical ID card to gain access...