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...Gore Retracts Concession" - honestly, can you imagine any other public figure's name at the beginning of a sentence like this? Is there any greater irony than having your plans for a recount announced by a man with the last name Daley...
...After the initial can-you-believe-this reaction to the phantom victory, the networks have seemed to settle into a comfortable, if surreal groove, doing the kind of talky, laid-back coverage you can afford to do at 4 in the morning while you wait for a recount. George Stephanopoulous, for instance, finally had the chance to earn his keep on ABC as a former Clintonista, guesstimating what sort of discussions must be going on among the Gore staff. (His theory: the Gore-ites will use impeachment as a rationalization for using what legal means they need to challenge...
...Expository writing course on African-American literature this spring, preceptor Suzanne Lane is unlikely to recount experiences from her own life as an ethnic minority...
...pimps interviewed for this documentary strive to project a sort of outlaw charm as they recount their stories. To hear them tell it, they provide a useful social service while protecting their "hos" from the vicissitudes of street life. But repetition erodes charm. What emerges instead is a portrait of crudely patriarchal males, harshly exploiting pathetically damaged women, then perversely wasting their profits on childish displays of outrageous clothes and cars. Loutishness without self-awareness remains loutishness--and it is finally depressing...
...Virgin Suicides is a movie based on the Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of the Lisbon's and the suicidal domino effect that occurs when the youngest daughter, Cecilia, hurls herself from the second-story window of the family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave...