Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are lapses. The film's wonderfully orchestrated car chases do linger on, and red-neck ribaldry can pale after a while, and maybe Glen shouldn't have to run smack into a cactus. But who can blame the Coens for blowing up their tale into conventionally funny shapes? Besides, as the brothers demonstrate at the climax, round is funny too. And more than a little poignant. The plot circles back to the quints' nursery, and then to the McDonnoughs' bedroom, where Hi has the strangest dream he dare consider. It is a vision into the future perfect, of middle...
...Kastin '90 argues that there is definitely a need for a student center, "and the Union isn't it. The University should provide facilities for forms of entertainment other than video games and ping-pong. We pale by comparison with other schools. Surely Harvard can do better than this," he said...
...aura of popular fame such as no other American artist had ever known in his or her lifetime -- a flash-card recognizability that almost rivaled Picasso's. Millions of Americans who could not have picked Jasper Johns or Henri Matisse from a police lineup could identify that pale, squarish, loose-lipped face with its acne, blinking gaze and silvery...
...that when Americans go to the opera they look like they are at death's door? Perhaps it is the power of this music from long-dead times that casts a pallor of thinning hair and pale complexions on opera goers...
...THERE it is. Not knowing that we need heroes, we debunk them. Pale and sickly scholars, incapable of heroism, reveal the "truth" about the men we would do well to revere...