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...Miami, sold ounces to a small circle of affluent suburbanites throughout the Northeast, lived unflamboyantly and saved about $150,000. "Am I glad I did it? Yes, plain and simple," Leonard says. "It was a perfectly safe business...
...much to play a kid's game. Baseball has lost its virginity. It has been infiltrated and corrupted by money." Then the discussion takes the predictable pseudo-intellectual turn when the baseball haters attempt to defend soccer or lacrosse as better sports. In my opinion, that's just plain silly...
...still moments, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) can marvel at sun-sets recite poetry and say. "It seems like there's got to be some place without greasers and socs--there's got to be some place with just plain of people." Any by the film's before throwing a punch...
...point of plain fact, a teacher of literature may do several quite different things, especially these days when universities house their own schools of thought on the subject. Some teach the formal aspects of literature, some the sociology of literature, some the politics. There are those who teach because literature tells them what it means to be human; others who hold that literature means whatever one wishes it to mean; still others who say it means nothing at all. Defenders of each fort sometimes make the newspapers, where, in argument with one another, they sound like crazed religious warriors...
...tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...