Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more immediate level, the Student Council took up the issue of the European food shortage. After President Truman called on the nation to curtail food consumption and conserve grain in late September 1947, enthusiastic members of the Council spent months wrangling over the implementation of a University-wide conservation program...
Thompson responded to criticism by citing accomplishments in his 10-year tenure at the State House. Through his "aggressive leadership," Thompson said he was proud to have helped win Cambridge the fourth-highest level of funding in the State...
...record, he is back together with his second ex-wife, the actress Lauren Holly. Their divorce, and her rumored affair with actor-director Edward Burns, made Carrey tabloid fodder--fishbowl living being another level on which he can relate to Truman Burbank. "I got in a fender bender on Sunset, and before I knew it there were paparazzi, because someone used his cell phone and made 300 bucks." He worries about media snoops planting recording devices in his hotel rooms--"So then you can't masturbate"--and worse. "Am I going to be combing my beard some day," he wonders...
...want to sing out, in one of Carrey's trademark siren wails. As dreamed up by screenwriter Andrew Niccol and realized to sunnily subversive perfection by director Peter Weir, The Truman Show is so verdant with metaphor and emotion that it works on any viewer's level. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be provoked to ask yourself why you feel this way. And for once in a blue moon of movies, you will think. Isn't that one of the best buzzes you can get leaving a multiplex...
...lacking. Alas, we were among the countless paying passengers adding to the coffers of another large corporation. The expectation of being waited on hand and foot was not fulfilled. It's good the Big Three have increased revenues, but I wish they would keep customer satisfaction on the same level as the design of these opulent new vessels. JAMES A. BELGARD Grand Junction, Colo...