Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assume the Department has the best interests of students in mind," he said...
There are the new habits you've picked up at college that, although completely commonplace in a university setting, may seem a little strange when taken in the context of normal home life. Take sleeping patterns, for instance. In my mind, pulling an all-nighter to pack the night before leaving for break seems like a reasonable thing to do. Equally reasonable is the 17 hours of continuous recovery sleep I need during that first day back home. My mother, of course, sees this extended rest as a clear indication that I have mono and insists that...
Furthermore, it goes without saying that there is a whole vocabulary of vulgar words and phrases that are commonplace in college conversation but are less than appreciated in the daily interactions of home life. Terms like "response paper," "UC elections" and "Loker Commons" come to mind most immediately, but there are a host of others. Nor will your parents be particularly receptive to tales of college life involving wild nights of debauchery and hedonism. So tell your sister from Duke or Georgetown or whatever real colleges are out there to tone it down, or perhaps you can at least offer...
...nowadays. People expect there to be lavish stunts and overwhelming explosions wherever 007 wends his way, and there's nothing wrong with that, on paper. Hey, cool stuff is cool, I know that. The thing is, when film sequences are designed with the idea of being extravagant specifically in mind, they inevitably turn out muddled and less than satisfying. Think back to really effective action sequences in recent movies, and you'll see it was their simplicity which made them compelling: from the straightforward careening of the bus in Speed, to the unpretentious mano y mano fighting in The Matrix...
Today, the latest film from Tim Burton, the mind behind such quirky films as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Edward Scissorhands as well as megahits like Batman and Batman Returns releases the latest in his canon, Sleepy Hollow. From the looks of it, the film will fit right in with its freakish characters, dark, imaginative sets and the pervading sense of fantasy that can be found in all of Burton's work...