Word: okay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Okay, so maybe it was our respective nicotine and running-shoe habits, coupled with some massive thesis-incurred library fines, that forced us to be money conscious...but we couldn't resist mentioning the Senior Gift on April Fool...
...would prove to be self-absorbed and irrelevant to my life--basically said to us, "Look, this is college. I know you are going to drink, but it's against the rules. So, here's the deal: as long as I don't know about it, it's okay. Just don't make me have to enforce the rules." At the time I didn't think much of it. But in retrospect, that comment, coming from someone I then took to be a respectable authority figure, led me to assume that everyone would be drinking and that...
Best Actor: Samuel L. Jackson, for Jackie Brown. Okay, so the movie wasn't what anyone expected. But it's high time everyone acknowledged Jackson's genius. He's too raw and too passionate for the Academy, but those gremlin eyes have lit fires under young people since Pulp Fiction...
...movies--the infamous Hays morality code, which constrained the movies to representing a rigidly defined value system whose iron grip did not begin to loosen until the 1960s and '70s--and the very personal impact upon the actors in Hollywood. The studios declared that being gay was no longer okay in Hollywood, thereby avoiding the harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious groups, and providing spin control on the gossip newspapers that were rapidly taking on an alarming independence. Actors who were rumored to be homosexual were ordered to get married and give the public what...
...embarrassed," Alice says. "I started just `cause I needed the money, and I saw other people doing it who looked like they were doing okay...