Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently argued with a Boston public high school teacher about the importance of American students, and especially citizens, possessing an awareness of international affairs. "Does it really matter to us what is going on in Kosovo or East Timor?" the teacher asked. The teacher decried the amount of American tax dollars devoted to supporting corrupt governments, sponsoring American military campaigns in other sovereign states or maintaining impotent international institutions such...
...going to eat for dinner, and berating myself for what I'd eaten at the party last night, and forcing myself through ridiculous exercise routines and talking about dieting with my friends--when I could have been thinking and talking and worrying about so many other things that actually matter...
...written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here and there, but more often than not, it all comes back to the same, basic body...
...Nevertheless, most would say that taking on the part of Jesus Christ seems to require some degree of egotism (these are the same people who say "Hey, Jesus!" to Fowler when they see him around campus). The fact of the matter is that the Jesus of Jesus Christ Superstar is no walk-on-water, parable-loving "other." In Sir Lloyd Weber's version of the Passion, Jesus is a man--not da man, not the Son of Man, just a normal man who is fighting against his own Superstardom to get a very simple message across...
...mood of the film doesn't help the matter. Defined by the triteness of the setting (a generic middle-America suburb/commercial center) and the over-exaggerated antics of the actors, the tone is downright campy, a far cry from the insightful and sharply satirical mood of the novel. Bruce Willis as Dwayne Hoover takes an unfortunate step backwards from his performance in The Sixth Sense by making a complete ass of himself. (Perhaps this is a sign that he should go back to doing Die Hard-type fare.) The rampant television commercials advertising Dwayne's cars? Mind-numbingly annoying...