Word: reels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the U.S. Cavalry in the last reel, Stephen Ambrose arrives just in time to rescue American history from total deconstruction by ethnocentrists, genderists and soreheads of the left and right...
...infinite possibilities and their fatal consequences. If two isolated children are attracted to each other, they'll satisfy their urge by any means necessary. If a fellow (Freddie Prinze Jr.) wants to have sex with his brother's fiance, he will. If a gun shows up in the first reel, it will surely go off in the last. Is this tragic? Not for the Pascals. Just trag-esque. Trag-onic...
...communal comedies of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges: films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Hail the Conquering Hero, in which a mild-mannered, small-town fellow is unfairly ostracized or lionized, and in which the prejudices of the vox pop are silenced in the last reel. Here it's a graduation-day ceremony that angrifies into a town meeting and then into a coming-out party. Everyone is happy, everyone...
...explosion has brought a couple of horn-based groups to the forefront of the popular modern rock movement. Replete with animated lyrics and cheery melodies, Reel Big Fish revels in their own path to fame with "Sellout." The next time you hear this song, picture two cars swerving down a rural, gravel-paved road on a sunny day with hands swaying outside the driver's side windows. I know I will. Then there is the more serious but just as exciting "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Although they are musically superior to Reel Big Fish...
Cantagallo refers to last year's hugely successful season in which Harvard dropped its opener to Cornell and then proceeded to reel off 16 straight wins on its way to an Ivy League title and an NCAA Tournament berth...