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...tried so hard to be generous, just as every Independence Day I restrain myself from playing with sparkle too close to Uncle Mort's suspiciously fluffy hair. I just could never bring myself to laugh as hard as everyone else. They looked like they were having such a good time...
...author frustrates her reader, interrupting the flow of emotion with these absurd statements which seem to make light of the situations at hand. When Gray Sexton writes that her mother, in workshops, "never embarassed me [Linda], even when I had written something truly terrible. Never once did she laugh at my nalvete, my cliches, the melodrama...," the reader may wish that her mother had been more critical...
After his death in 1978, Ed Wood got the last laugh: his films were rediscovered, first as camp and now as fodder for a light industry in cultural revisionism. The shaggy hagiography includes a breezily lurid documentary, Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora; a second documentary on the making of Plan 9; and even a porno homage -- Plan 69 from Outer Space. And now there's Tim Burton's surprisingly listless biopic, known simply as Ed Wood. Once a never-was, Wood is now a brand name...
...been annexed into the domain of show business, packaged and scented for maximum consumer appeal. In America the right to free speech supersedes the right to a fair trail because we don't have any qualms about pointing a gun to someone's head if it makes us laugh...
...think about yet more requirements or additions to the core, or any classes, for that matter. But also think about your education, and keep your mind wide open to new ideas such as service-learning, which isn't as bad as Mr. Mulkerin would have it seem. Many people laugh it off and dismiss it because of faulty perceptions that are held towards "community service in our classes," but service-learning is indeed a very powerful tool in education and we cannot afford to ignore it. --Christopher...