Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together just as badly. "This is Turkey," Turks like to say with a shrug, to explain away such absurdities. This time, however, the authorities say they will not make the old mistakes. And Turkey's people, shaken out of their traditional deference to the state, are determined not to let their leaders backslide...
...have a pinup's bod, does not even sport a radiant mane of natural curls. What Lindsay Weir has is a prodigious brain that she's slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay is questioning the justness of the world and her own place in it. Cardellini captures her simmering outrage with just the right mixture...
...Let's say you sank every cent you had, or maybe didn't have, into making a movie, a funny, feature-length film. Somehow, you were able to talk Teri Garr, Al Franken, Bob Balaban and Roy Scheider into acting in it. And let's say that the movie made the circuit of independent film festivals in 1998, and won a couple of Best Picture-type awards. You'd expect that one of the studios would pick up your masterpiece and distribute it, right...
Rumor has it that the 1994 Commencement Speaker will be none other than Vice President Al Gore '69. He is just the man for the job. The resolutely uncontroversial Gore is the fitting embodiment of the Class of 1994, the Class that let controversy at Harvard suffer an ignominiously silent death. Certainly, the choice of the milquetoast Vice President promises a commencement free of the rancor that overhung last year's ceremony...
...Class of 1994 has let the doyenne of controversial publications, the infamous rag, lapse into oblivion. Topping the particularly inflamatory "educated pussy" was a challenge that no present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...