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...brother's story too. With 152,000 tickets sold at $15.70 apiece, the earl will be bringing in nearly $2.4 million. Much of the world is aware of how expensive it is to be an earl and master of one of the more historic properties in the realm. It is costly too to deal with a scandalous divorce. So, Spencer declares, he will tithe to charity, and the accounts will be audited...
...rumschpringes is a kind of prolonged joyride, one last opportunity for them to romp in the pleasures of the "real world" before time runs out and the church, and adult baptism, beckons. During this period of indulgence, it's understood that teenagers tread, oh, so lightly, into the realm of dating; that the boys are likely to answer the siren call of a well-tuned engine (forbidden to baptized churchgoers); and that a few might even dabble in smoking and drinking. The teenagers join "gangs" and cavort with one another at hoedowns or barn dances. Police say the Stoltzfuses...
...management business than he thought. Most of the matters he spouts off about in the course of the day are less important than what pundits spout off about: the direction of the efforts of a few dozen people rather than the direction of Western civilization. However, in this smaller realm, what he spouts actually affects the course of events--at least sometimes. Once he masters this management stuff, maybe it will happen more often...
...matter-of-factness of Passion in the Desert is both its supreme virtue and its most precarious pitfall. After all the resplendence of Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient, Currier's image of the desert as an inhospitable realm, physically and psychically rocky for those unused to its contours, is a welcome inclusion to the motion picture atlas. Currier's distaste for dramatics, however, is somewhat crippling to her narrative, which so carefully withdraws from any hint of comedy or irony that it inches closer and closer to forsaking emotion altogether. Currier is clearly and artist of proficiency...
...adults in a complex world? "We're struggling to find alternative models for heroism," says Kathleen Karlyn, an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, who is co-writing a book about girl culture. "In order to even imagine female heroism, we're placing it in the realm of fantasy...