Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reporter talked with Kate on a conference call last week, the third party disagreed. Says her son Jake, a Bronx Science junior: "To anyone who's read The Crucible or knows about the Salem witch trials, it's somewhat frightening. The end result is a fear of people who are just members of organizations." Whether or not Melzer would consider introducing the practices of adulthood to his students at Bronx Science, he has already plunged them into the adult world's moral debates...
...drama revolves around Jake and Maggie Arnett, a middle-aged, middle- class black couple living in St. Paul, Minnesota, and their six children (by various marriages) and their assorted spouses and kids. If the characters and relationships are a bit hard to sort out at times, the problems they face aren't. A 15-year-old boy is falling in with the wrong crowd on the streets. A single mother tries to put her life back together after drug rehabilitation. The manager of a clothing store owned by the Mob is lured into a steroid-fencing scheme...
Hollywood did not need a Body by Jake workout to get its movies into PG shape; it required no Marianne Williamson exhortation to spur it to reunite the nuclear family onscreen. The industry simply looked at the numbers. Family movies can be made cheaply and can reap deeply. "In addition to selling the ticket to the young child," says producer Scott Rudin (The Addams Family, Sister Act, Searching for Bobby Fischer), "you also sell tickets to five of his friends and three of their parents. For the same marketing dollar, the quantity of purchase is much higher. And kids...
Months of negotiations following were marked by several major events. In September, Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D.Mass.) wrote a letter of support read at a rally outside Massachuseus Hall. In December, the Rev. Jake I. Jackson spoke by invitation in the Yard, attracting thousands of onlookers...
...Jake's uncle, former Medical School Associate Clinical Professor of Psychistry Leon N. Shapiro '45-'93, will receive his diploma 52 years after he matriculated to Harvard University...