Word: melt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drug dealers can melt into the crowd near developments," he says. "This is still a place with a lots of working class and poor people...
...laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the winding story line like road kill; the only exception is Marisa Tomei as Vinny's wondrously sardonic fiance. Tomei's pauses in her derision -- "Oh. Yeah. You blend." -- can melt even a critic's reserve. The rest of the proceeding is smug and labored, stretching jokes about mistaken identity and prison rape into endless tropes. So go ahead. Enjoy the rabble- truckling comedy of My Cousin Vinny. Just don't feel good about...
...doesn't take much to make me melt, either. Any vaguely romantic scene will...
Page 75 is a total melt down. On that page, one of the voices of the polylogue (a technique Derrida has used before, most successfully in "Restitutions" in The Truth in Painting--he's always doing things like that) says that the initial consonant in the word cinder doesn't matter much to Derrida "every word seems to finish with () inder." But the French version says that every words seems to finish with "()endre" (the ending of cendre) "ou ()andre." In "andre," we have allusions to both "androor" "human" and "Anderer," the German "other...
Like love songs and The Wonder Years, this book should not be taken in large doses. After reading too many essays in one sitting, they tend to melt together into one lump of sappy, sentimental...well, fill in your own alliteration. The essays lose force because their cute outcomes become predictable. For example, Schnur constantly decorates this stories with "coincidental" meeting with pretty girls and over-blown adoration by neighborhood children...