Word: karle
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Like Ruth, Sling Blade's Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a brain-damaged naif taken in by strangers. When he was 12, Karl killed his mother and her lover. Now, 25 years later, he is released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could be a healthier version of the lonely, imperiled child Karl was and still is. Rural Arkansas is home to some very decent people--the boy Frank, his mother and her boss (Ritter), Karl and his various keepers--and one or two moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam...
Sling Blade may be too scrupulously attentive to the rhythms and speech of the small-town South; it easily breaks the all-time record for use of the word reckon. But as incarnated in writer-director Thornton's laconic bass voice and wonderfully shambling gait, Karl is a memorable, affecting creature--so gentle he daren't sleep on an offered bed for fear of spoiling the room's perfect primness, so righteous he will consider killing to protect his adoptive family. Sling Blade meanders when Karl isn't driving it, but for the first half-hour and the last...
Senior co-captain Karl M. Scheer agreed with Coach Chasson's predictions. "We have an amazing group of transfers and freshmen," Scheer said, "plus all our old guns are back...
Paris fashion is nothing if not international. The last Frenchman to enter the big time was Christian Lacroix 10 years ago. The king of the industry is Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld, who is German. But the headlines are now being made by two young Englishmen: John Galliano, 36, and Alexander McQueen, just 27. A charming, egregiously talented pixie of a man, Galliano took over the house of Givenchy last year but has already moved on to preside over Christian Dior, considered--along with Chanel--the most important French fashion empire. McQueen, an East Ender previously unknown outside the trendier London...
...other prophets of doom had been mistaken. Nary a multi-color "click" pen had been thrown, nor any "bell-ringing beef" flung upon the arrival of the randomized sophomore class into the houses. Despite valiant attempts to polarize the situation (e.g. disproportionate gender ratios), the class struggle described in Karl Marx's little-known Harvardesque Manifesto has yet come to pass...