Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then where, among the frustrations and disappointments of American life, can one find some kind of happiness? Mendes offers an answer in the character of Ricky (excellently played by Wes Bentley), Burnham's teenage neighbor. A strange outcast, Ricky videotapes everything "because it is beautiful." Beauty, for him, lies in stripping away any layer from a thing until it is totally naked. He uses his video camera to get to the essence of a subject. That is, he struggles to see things as they are, while his parents and neighbors distract themselves with various illusions. Right before his death, Burnham...
...bumped into Edward Norton on a street in New York City a few months ago. Like literally, bumped into him and barely noticed. Sauntering down Broadway, he isn't a particularly intimidating presence. Thinning dyed blond hair, skinny, really pale. He looks kind of like the slightly dorky, always perfect kid in high school who everybody loves. The kind of guy who couldn't hurt...
...Rather than saying that students may not sign agreements to accept confidential information from sponsors, we just insist that the acceptance of confidential information not be of a kind that prevents the person from publishing or discussing their own research," Martin said...
...accuses the Advocate of a kind of collective artistic pretension. It seems that FM's hell-bent desire to be sensational at the expense of objectivity has blinded it to the fact that the faults we find in others are often...
...Dinner and a flu shot, kind of like a date from the twilight zone. It's a good place to do it, you can't avoid the dining hall," Mucha said...