Word: roped
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...final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little bit of divine intervention...
...starts out great: a father and his two grown children, Peter (Chris O'Donnell) and Annie (Robin Tunney), are on a practice climb in what appears to be Monument Valley. An accident occurs, and the three of them are dangling from a rope that can only hold two. Someone has to be cut loose. This turns out to be the father, and it is his son who wields the knife that sends him into deadly free fall...
...ruthless ambition impairs his judgment. If he became President, and thus fulfilled his ambition, would his judgment improve? The nation must hope so. On the other hand, if Gore were to lose, would the loss mellow his ambition and deepen his character? Would he stop running up and down rope lines like an afternoon game-show host...
...about his weight. His grades were dropping. His self-esteem was so low he would refuse to take off his shirt in blistering heat for fear of "repelling" family members. And since the mocking increased when he exerted himself--biking in the neighborhood, say, or trying to climb a rope in PE--he was spending most of his free time indoors...
...ruthless ambition impairs his judgment. If he became president, and thus fulfilled his ambition, would his judgment improve? The nation must hope so. On the other hand, if Gore were to lose, would the loss mellow his ambition and deepen his character? Would he stop running up and down rope lines like an afternoon game show host...