Word: rocks
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...city’s police before issuing a permit for the tailgate. “I think we will get there, but to reach agreement we have had to reconsider our policies on students bringing alcohol into the tailgate area,” Gross wrote. ‘ROCK BOTTOM’ The BPD pledged to crack down on Harvard-Yale tailgates after the 2004 Game, leaving some doubt as to whether there would be a tailgate at all. But yesterday’s announcement that the party will indeed go on left few students in a celebratory mood...
...might assume that 30 Rock, the sitcom, is the more lightweight show. But Fey began comedy writing with Chicago's Second City troupe, where, she says, "your starting place was always current events and social issues." Her hit movie Mean Girls was a mainstream feminist entertainment that was steeped in ideas but not overwhelmed by them. And 30 Rock is at heart about the race-class-gender triangle among its three leads: Liz, a talented but headstrong woman; Jack, a conservative suit who's not as dumb as Liz wishes he were; and Tracy, a loony--but cannily so--black...
...Rock is willing to let each of its characters be right and wrong; it's confident that we don't need to worship them to like them. And for all the show's cartooniness, its gender-conscious take on the TV business is actually more sophisticated. Sure, networks occasionally interfere with shows for political reasons. But more often, they do so for demographic reasons. Or for no reason. "Sometimes," Jack boasts, "you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your...
Which is not to say 30 Rock is cynical. But where Studio 60 reveres television, 30 Rock loves TV, and that makes the difference. At one point in Studio 60, the show's director cracks a joke that a stressed-out Danny fails to appreciate. Says the director: "It's a comedy show, dude." Good thing somebody remembers that...
...several weeks verifying, feature images from Australian security detachment (secdet) operations around the Baghdad headquarters known as the Flats during 2004 and 2005, and at Al Muthanna in southern Iraq. One of the videos, titled Rip It Up-a 4-min. montage of still and moving images set to rock music-is credited to "3 Troop B Squad 2 Cav" and is followed by the letters V-23, a possible reference to the squad's call sign...