Word: macdonaldization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIRTY WORK (June 5). SNL deportee Norm Macdonald trades in his Weekend Update chair for the role of an evil prankster in the revenge-for-hire business. Do let us know how it turns...
...become culturally rehabilitated. The recent success of L.A. Confidential is one example: the re-release of Purple Noon (based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, with hunky French actor Alain Delon) is another. In the world of books, James Ellroy's novels are selling well. Ross MacDonald's works have been reissued in a Vintage edition, and the Harvard Bookstore featured a compilation of crime novels of the '40s and '50s only a month or two ago. I am compelled to ask: why now? Why are people suddenly interested in noir again after almost 50 years...
...made an improbable save in the second as he lay prostrate out of the net and stretched his body across to glove a shot by Andy MacDonald...
...made an improbable save in the second as helay prostrate out of the net and stretched hisbody across to glove a shot by Andy MacDonald...
...Angeles apartment complex, captivating its audience with racy plots from murder to adultery. While some consider "Melrose" to be "trashy," others, like Michelle L. Murphy '99, appreciate the show's incredibility. Murphy, who watches weekly with roommates Karrine M. Jervis '99, Terri A. Teller '99, and Rhea C. MacDonald '99, comments, "`Melrose Place' is the best nighttime drama because it is escape TV. `Beverly Hills 90210' and `Party of Five' try to be `real life' and fail...