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...girls place flowers in baskets oh so carefully) to the set staging of the chorus. When Casilda is holding a rose during a bittersweet love song, you know she will drop it at the end. She does. The evening is full of things like that too depressing to recount here...
...Kohlberg Kravis Roberts' epic $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco in 1988) to work with. And the $7 million HBO earmarked for the project probably came in handy too. The film remains reasonably faithful to the spirit of the book, while vastly simplifying the plot. Whereas Burrough and Helyar recount a story that involves dozens of rapacious financiers, greedy executives, odious publicists, duplicitous bankers and devious attorneys, hbo has boiled down the cast of characters to only about a dozen. But they're all pretty avaricious, devious, duplicitous or odious, so very little has been lost in translation...
...Songs of Self-Discovery" contains the most introspective pieces. These selections recount discoveries of identity, sexuality, language and emotions. "Aria," Richard Rodriguez' introductory chapter to his book Hunger of Memory is perhaps the best offering in this section; the piece grapples lyrically with the two cultures that separate his public and private spheres. Sandra Cisneros and Rudolfo Anaya's selections explore adolescent sensual awareness in markedly different ways. Anaya's nearly magical story is infused with innocent curiosity, while Cisneros' darker story deals with the traumatizing effects of leaving childhood games to play adult roles...
Remember your first car? A young woman talks about picking out hers (a Saturn) with her dad. Other Saturn owners recount horrific auto accidents, reporting that thanks to their rugged little cars, they emerged unscathed. Taken together, the ads describe a family car that is sturdy, affordable -- and . friendly to boot. When a teacher writes to the factory about her Saturn, the workers who made it gather round to sign a note to her. Message: This is a family worth joining...
...signing up to run. Some students ended up voting for fake candidates. In addition, the completed ballots were left out in the open in the council's Canaday office. Someone rifled through and stole several houses' ballots, leaving some candidates wondering about possible wrongdoing and the impossibility of a recount. The carelessness with whch Heinicke handled the elections should cause concern...