Word: m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...m never quite certain what to do with films like American Beauty--the ones that strive to reach beyond the grasp of understanding, the ones that confound. They are difficult and impressive but almost always flawed. Genre movies and silly Hollywood "products" are easy: you always know what you are going to get when you hand over your two bits and your two hours. There is a deep satisfaction in getting exactly what you pay for: a quick roller-coaster, or a good cry, or the fantasy of another life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow...
...Five, etc.), Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears... Without the opposition, each type of act would grate on us--like the Spice Girls who quickly dissolved when we tired of their singular prissiness. Having a popular nemesis who takes away your market share (though I'm pretty sure, contrary to what record execs think, that most Backstreet Boys fans hide N'Sync albums in their closet and vice versa) drives an artist --or at least makes him or her try--to be innovative. The public seems to be figuring this out too. It was virtually against...
...bribe the Official Millennial Committee (though I have a feeling that this committee is helmed by the Gap CEO who made orange trendy in the first place). If anyone knows how orange was chosen as the most important color of 1000 years, please drop me a line. I'm sure the world would like to know...
Ownership of the site has already been transferred, but a formal handover will take place next Tuesday at the complex, in a ceremony in which Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino will take part...
...much more convenient just to log on, rather than dealing with those crazy lines at the Coop and carrying the heavy shopping bin," says Maura M. Pelham...