Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tricks, and taking flat-out risks--at once point, the word "Ha!" is repeated without interruption over nearly two entire pages. But this Joycean wordplay, disconcerting at first, eventually becomes clear for what it usually is--humor. And that's where the stories get their power. On a surface level, they're a series of often depressing vignettes about dissatisfied, disillusioned adults, but underneath one can find a slightly sardonic, yet often mirthful tone that doles out a plethora of puns and ironic twists...
Pleasantville charms, and on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show, presenting a TV world made up of potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. Brother and sister are transported into the 50s television show "Pleasantville." David tries to keep the show going as scripted while his sister Jennifer immediately rebels. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda...
After the highly successful romantic comedy The Wedding Singer, it appeared that Adam Sandler had reached a new level of maturity and subtlety. Appearances are often deceptive, and if you've seen Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and the recurring "S.N.L." skit "Canteen Boy," then you can piece together Sandler's stupid, bayou-bred mama's boy, Bobby Bouchet. Bouchet, after learning how to channel his aggression into solid hits, goes from being the village idiot/waterboy to being a tackle that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag repair man. The plot is weak, but Sandler's hilarious physical...
...Gates has] reached that level where there is no distinction between inside and outside," Matz says. "The more important you are, the more liberty you have to integrate your work and your pleasure...
...History Department first began requiring the History 10 a/b sequence of its concentrators about five years ago. The goal, according to Professor of History and Head Tutor James Hankins, was to create "something foundational to provide a common frame of reference and to allow for more sophistication [in] higher-level courses...