Word: playfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play well together," Petruccelli said. "They can't afford to do anything special to me. My teammates will pick up the slack and make them...
...This match up will be the first in Ivy League play for Yale and the second for Harvard, but it may have championship implications...
Still, the fact that a relationship between Angela and Lester seems a distinct (and perhaps even worthy) possibility is shocking for a movie that is ostensibly mainstream. In many respects, for that matter, this film is unusual in its refusal to play by the rules of Hollywood filmmaking: demolishing the boundaries between adult problems and adolescent fears, and, most significantly, declining to impose any code of morals over its characters' behavior. This is the first movie I have seen in a long time (well, at least since Go) that makes drug dealing seem like an upwardly mobile profession...
What makes American Beauty both so fascinating and troubling is its refusal to play its characters' idiosyncrasies for shock value, and especially its amoral complicity in Lester's lesser actions. The film's tone is strangely gleeful, for instance, when Lester viciously berates his chilly wife.Winning an argument easily with a self-satisfied put-down that sadistically needles her insecurities, Spacey lets a devilish grin sneak across his face as if to say: ooh! that was fun. Trouble is, Lester's target (adeptly played by Bening) is so easy and his blow so gratuitous that one can't help feeling...
...famous Feldstein and those Moral Reasoning cores, Sanders is host to a wide array of musical events. A cappella is quite popular here, as are orchestral, choral and ethnic music events and the occasional speech or awards ceremony. Once in a blue moon, a modern music show will play (Dar Williams' Cry Cry Cry for one), but Sanders is usually strictly Harvardian musical fare...