Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minor episodic conflicts--the drug test, hazing, a fight, various love interests--are the bare bones of the film. They aren't terribly compelling, nor are they meant to be. It's just fun and interesting to watch these characters hang out. Some of them are very appealing, especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend...
...shots of helicopters, photographed so they look like giant bugs as they roar across the night skies, doing battle with a little bug, the Medfly, terror of the California fruit industry. This periodic chemical warfare, in which insecticides are noisily laid down across entire neighborhoods, is one of the minor, faintly comic annoyances of Los Angeles life. All that technology; such a humble and primitive...
King said yesterday the smoke alarm intrudersare a "minor altercation," which has already beencorrected...
Previously, it was illegal to serve a minor in Massachusetts. But Massachusetts law contained no rules against drinking alcohol that, say, dropped from the sky--a curious phenomenon that seemed to happen often in Cambridge. The Puritan holdovers in the State House have made it officially illegal for minors to possess alcohol, meaning even Corona from the clouds is off limits...
...jaded with unalloyed success. What is the point of going on? Aren't there any problems in this book? Unfortunately, the only serious trouble to visit Conroy's story occurs when Claude is at the keyboard. Here is what happens when he sits in on a jazz session: "G minor C seventh, A-flat minor D-flat seventh, A minor D seventh, B-flat minor E-flat seventh, and then a quick little half-tone figure to come out exactly right on F dominant seventh. It was so exciting...