Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduates retreat to the local pub, the Serf'n Turf, to regroup. There, Sasha Nidiot (a Cliff Clavin parody played by Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
...said that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire...
According to a written statement, the designed teams met more than 50 times between March and October of 1993, including a three-day offsite retreat...
Whereas some Americans simply retreat behind bigger door locks, others are becoming increasingly active, joining street patrols, reforming schools and seeking alternative health care. Not every corrective impulse is completely benign. Many Americans have stocked up on guns and walled in their communities. The question that remains is whether America's notion of personal responsibility will prove to be selfish and inward-looking, or expansive and community-minded...
...prepared to fight to the end," DiGiovanni says, but good business dictated that he retreat...