Word: pugsley
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They are, as well, ferocious defenders of their individuality. In the movie's most carefully pointed passage, the older children, Pugsley and Wednesday (Jimmy Workman and the divinely evil Christina Ricci), are shipped off to summer camp, where their resistance to huggy communitarianism and conventional good cheer is exemplary. They can't be brainwashed, even when they are locked into a cabin with tapes of The Sound of Music and other uplifting material. Dragooned into the camp pageant, they organize the other misfits and contrive to burn their blond, blue-eyed chief tormentor at the stake. Bless their twisted souls...
...meter run1. B. Burke, Princeton, 14:11; 2. K. Stellman, Dartmouth, 14:28; 3. R. Pugsley...