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...done all these things in the belief that they are, mostly, helpful. But the ordeal leaves him feeling drained--and watched. One day, as he shuttled between housing and welfare appointments, he started to buckle under the scrutiny--he added up all the people he had to report to, including his family, and he ran out of fingers. When he missed a drug-treatment meeting to go to a job interview, he had to defend himself to an irate caseworker. "It's like they got a rope around your neck, a rope around your feet, and they just...
...words: “We regret to inform you that we cannot offer you a place in the Harvard College Class of blah blah blah...” You’ve just been rejected! Now change the school to Stanford, change your name to Shaun, videotape the whole ordeal and BAM! You’ve got yourself a pivotal scene from Orange County, the new teen comedy from our friends at MTV Pictures. The film stars Colin Hanks (yes, that Hanks) as Shaun Brumder, a high school senior who desperately wants to attend Stanford University, only to have...
...GHOST WORLD An Amelie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Ghost World An Amélie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...terrible ordeal indeed. Walker (he goes by his mother’s maiden name) was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance after the fall of Kunduz and imprisoned in the now-infamous Kala Jangi fortress. At the prison, Newsweek reported recently, he refused to answer questions posed by two CIA agents. Shortly after he was sent back to his cell, one of his interrogators, CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann, was killed by Walker’s comrades-in-arms...