Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enterprise; in Woodland Hills, Calif. On the cult hit TV series and in six film versions, Dr. McCoy battled Leonard Nimoy's hyperlogical Mr. Spock, whose emotional pulselessness McCoy disdained. Though he could be melodramatic at the prospect of treating aliens--"I'm just a country doctor!"--he never let Captain Kirk down...
...kids to show photo identification before seeing R-rated films. This carding, in my opinion, is just a silly waste of time. First, the majority of movies are rated R, and they tend to be the most exciting and desirable to see. In general, when a group of kids, let's say age 13 or 14, go out to see a movie, and their choices are a Disney cartoon, an adult romance or a violent thriller, they're going to be drawn to the thriller. If they can't get into that, they'll probably just hit the streets rather...
...eager to see it; and my dad drove me, a couple of friends and my younger brother to the theater and went in to buy us tickets. They informed him that he would have to go into the movie with us; his permission was not sufficient to let us in. Since my dad couldn't stay to see the movie, we all went back home, where he instead had to spend a long night with a bunch of giggling teenage girls...
...very trying lives of their teens. Kids are capable of holding some serious emotions, which if not expressed and understood can lead to destructive actions. Violent movies are, in some ways, a venting mechanism. And rather than blame the movies and place further suffocating laws on kids, why not let them decide what they can and cannot see? By giving them the freedom to choose, you are showing them a little piece of respect and responsibility...
Since all 2,000 AIBOs destined for these shores have already been snapped up online, I was practically salivating when Sony reps let me take the floppy-eared robo-dog for a test drive. To the lucky prospective owners, I can report: AIBO is worth the wait. Five years in the making, this pup is a technophile's dream toy. He has a chip in each detachable limb. He has a camera in his nose. He chases after balls, as long as they're hot pink. He walks on all fours--a major cybernetic achievement, I'm told. He wags...