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Critics might want to start downloading because with Punch-Drunk Love (see review), the cultural significance of Sandler's work has become a serious proposition. In his new movie, Sandler plays a plunger salesman who dreams of escaping his banal existence via frequent-flyer miles. As far as romantic comedies go, it's very strange, which is what you would expect from director Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. What you don't expect is an art film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage...
Like the Cajun numskull in 1998's The Waterboy, Sandler's character in Punch-Drunk Love, Barry Egan, is prone to violence but hates himself for it. Like the rich slacker who returns to elementary school as an adult in 1995's Billy Madison, Egan is ultimately redeemed by the unwarranted love of a woman (Emily Watson). Some will say Sandler has developed an edge--indeed, the R-rated Punch-Drunk Love is much darker than, say, The Wedding Singer--but Sandler has always had a dark side. It has been relegated to his successful, warning-labeled comedy albums...
Some have found what they hope will be a more permanent solution. This year two new female final clubs and one new sorority hit campus, bringing the total number of female clubs up to eight. Many who never wanted to punch before are considering joining the next class of female final club inductees. Sarah A. Levine-Gronningsater ’03, the current president of the Seneca, says the number of girls interested in the club has been on a steady incline over the course of the last three years. She says about 75 girls applied for Seneca membership three...
...women to a wine and cheese function off-campus this fall, according to Chavez, from which they will choose about 10 more women to form a core group. This spring, the society will hold a selection process that will be invite-only and almost identical to a final club punch...
...down about 27% so far this year. American insurance companies are big equity investors, too, but have been careful not to let their holdings rise above about 25% of their total investments, compared with a 2000 average of 37% for the Europeans. Their stock sales also don't punch as hard, since insurers hold just under 7% of the total U.S. stock market, according to Federal Reserve statistics. Huge equity losses for the Europeans haven't translated into catastrophe - yet. A couple of small insurers have encountered serious difficulties, including one German firm with ties to the Protestant Church, Detmold...