Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes naturally, really. You've rehearsed every day of your life ever since your were a small babe, thanks to the status quo. Ladies and gentlemen, you are being led to your doom and all you have to manage to do is stay awake...
Voicing complaints about the state of movie-making is always frustrating. Defenders of the status quo will inevitably claim that the American people want to see high-tech action flicks with hackneyed plots. The truth, however, is that we are tricked into seeing blockbuster films by carefully crafted media blitzes and the draw potential of Hollywood heartthrobs. We all can remember when we went to see a film such as Armageddon even though our friends told us it was awful. Like insects that fly into the light after watching their comrades burst into flames, we convince ourselves that a movie...
...shouldn't have taken some of the gifts. But Smaltz's critics maintain that Espy's misguided behavior hardly warranted such weighty criminal charges. At trial, Smaltz failed to show that Espy had rewarded any of his gift donors. Though the law doesn't require an explicit quid pro quo, Smaltz had to demonstrate that Espy knew the givers were trying to influence him. Smaltz didn...
...sensitivity and complexity of the issue and respect the exchange of ideas. However, their eagerness to prove what open minds they have backfires. The hesitant beginning leads to a hesitant discussion. Fear of saying the "wrong thing" obscures honest talk. People bite their tongues, and a woefully inadequate status quo remains in place. As a result, the "open dialogue" becomes quite closed...
...have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with sentiment and demagoguery. After a Sandler speech in Billy Madison, the principal sagely notes that "everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." That's how many people feel after watching a Sandler movie...