Word: rags
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...chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author. For Chun, school is an annoyance that keeps her from more pressing concerns like boyfriends, punk-rock clubs, shopping malls and McDonald's. After dropping out to write for a fashion rag, Chun goes back to school. But she can't abide the monotony nor the teachers' telling her what to do and be, and she leaves again, this time for good...
...Most messed-up of all is Heidi, Shortland's angel with dirty wings, whose eternal openness almost leads to her destruction. In the film's most daring scene, she brings home two city boys to her room where, drugged out, she is passed around like a rag doll. Both funny and unbearably sad, the scene developed from intensive rehearsals with National Institute of Dramatic Art graduates Toby Schmitz and Henry Nixon. "It was almost as if it was just her body in the scene and not her soul," Shortland recalls. With Cornish's out-there performance (the light to Worthington...
...index finger well enough to write his signature for the first time since a bicycle accident two years ago; Jake Giambrone of Alabama can move his right wrist for the first time since a wrestling injury four years ago; and Cade Richardson of Washington State can feel his rag-wool socks for the first time since his paraglider accident in 2001?"my feet itch," he says, "and it feels great...
...story, but you mustn't say it came from me." So they would get a front-page story in the Enquirer. Now, remember that we maybe had 150 million people walking past it. Then they could go back to their friends and say, "How could that rat rag get that story? It's not true...
According to the report, Cicero was observed rambling about Arabs at Cambridge Hospital and claimed one worker had tried to stuff a rag down his throat. Asked why he left Harvard, Cicero became agitated: “They gave an ultimatum or a buyout—get rid of you—put [in] the minorities...