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Kevin Smith's Clerks., a rakish comedy set in a New Jersey convenience store, was proscribed for "language" -- a wittier, more stylized version of the wry obscenities that are the lingua franca of today's teenagers. "I don't want to become a poster boy for vulgarity," says Smith, 24, "but in this film it works. There's nothing in Clerks. that is more vulgar than the language Jennifer Jason Leigh uses as a phone-sex operator in Robert Altman's ( Short Cuts, and that movie got an R. In fact, that was done in a sexually titillating...
This film will be one that defines my, and I know, many other people's, college life. Many a night have I hung out watching this soon-to-be cult classic in some altered state and laughed till my sides hurt. I mean, as the movie poster suggests, "See it with...
...Carmel Valley. Begala felt that of all 435 congressional districts, Panetta's was least representative of America -- the pure, elitist, unreal world of California dreaming. Panetta seemed to love talking about nothing more than deficit reduction ... In private, ((Begala)) began applying a new label to the budget director: 'The Poster Boy for ) Economic Constipation."' -- from Bob Woodward's The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House
...book, it is her reticence that is most striking. She avoids public-policy debates about Prozac and mental-health coverage. "People think I'm a psychology expert, but I'm not," she says. "I'm a writer." Despite an appearance on Oprah, she has no intention of becoming a poster child for mental illness. "I don't believe I have any obligation to let people into my private life," she says. This may seem like a curious attitude for someone who has made public her years in a mental hospital, but even in her book, Kaysen maintains a distance...
...middle class. That might seem surprising, since in last year's fight to develop a budget program, Panetta successfully insisted on much more deficit reduction than Clinton's more partisan counselors wanted. According to Bob Woodward's new book, The Agenda, political adviser Paul Begala sneeringly called Panetta "the poster boy for economic constipation." At the White House, though, deficit reduction is regarded as last year's issue and, for the moment, is all but forgotten...