Word: pored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today film scholars ignore Kramer's work the better to pore over Ed Wood's bizarrely inept Plan 9 from Outer Space. And TV writers, instead of challenging themselves and the medium, mostly want to rip off the latest hit. "What do you feel like rippin' off tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like rippin...
Unfortunately, that kind of bottom-line attitude seems to characterize much of academic life here. Rare are the courses where all of the enrolled students pore over the material and graduate the course feeling wiser, broader and maybe even transformed. I think the reason is simple...
...buying a car, and you can't afford to make a mistake. What do you do? Consult your friends and your Ouija board? Pore over newspapers and magazine ads? Endure dealership pitches and test drives? Lie awake at night worried you'll screw up? All of the above...
...sense of humor, but Connerly has been cracking me up ever since he agreed to chair that anti-affirmative-action crusade. I laughed out loud when I heard that in 1991 this man who says that his hatred for racial preferences is so intense it "seeps out of every pore" had registered his consulting firm as a black-owned business in order to keep state contracts worth more than $1 million (he says a state law compelled him to do so). And I found it wryly amusing that Prop 209's organizers picked Connerly as field marshal of their...
Like journalists who pore over dirty magazines in order to debunk them, The People vs. Larry Flynt wants to have it both ways. A relevant point of comparison is with A Clockwork Orange, a far riskier and more complicated film that in arguing for the sanctity of free will dared to create a charismatic protagonist whose exercise of that free will was pointedly horrific. Larry Flynt has the nerve to argue for the sanctity of free speech but--for lack of a better word--censors its excesses. Fortunately, moviegoers who feel compelled to test their First Amendment absolutism need...