Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREPARED, PART 11 If the only historical artifacts of the 20th century were the 11 Boy Scout handbooks--issued from 1910 to last week--it would be remembered as an era in which the square knot retained its central importance. Chivalry, woodcraft and "duck-on-a-rock," on the other hand, made way for low-impact camping, Internet etiquette and self-defense from sexual abuse. The new book is printed in color on recycled paper, and it, alas, no longer offers such wise saws as "all trainers know that smoking is bad for the wind...
...blowsy mom (Brenda Blethyn) and courted by a drab-as-drywall repairman (Ewan McGregor), lives only for the pop standards her dear dead dad loved. Turns out she has an eerie gift for mimicking Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and other ghosts of chanteuses past. So a local talent scout (Michael Caine) thrusts the kid onstage for her, and the film's, moment of magic. Horrocks' metamorphosis from starling to star is worth cherishing. But stay around for Caine's bilious rendition of Roy Orbison's It's Over--screw-you show biz at its most show-bizarre...
...beautiful in every single way. Jeanne is everything I admire. She is a role model as well as a best friend. I love her energy, her passion and her compassion." Kissing Brian passionately, Jeanne exclaims that Brian is "so sincere, so giving and so honest-he is a Boy Scout. I always wanted someone who would really appreciate me for me--a person who would embrace everything about me--all my neuroses. This is what Brain has done. I have a connection with him that no one can ever replicate. Knowing Brian, I feel that it's almost...
...country only to be summarily dismissed after Cain 607 proves himself superior. In the end, of course, the new men are not up to the challenge of tackling Kurt Russell, so viewers realize that progress is not necessarily for the best. Okay, but Todd is not exactly a Boy Scout. He was picked at birth, and along with the other trainees, grew up learning lessons such as "weakness is death" and "winning is everything." Todd's world is built on survival of the fittest--one completes training by managing to stay alive for 17 years. It is hard to sympathize...
...secrets to the Soviet Union's repeated success in various Olympic sports was that the country's state-run system allowed the government to go into preschools and scout out children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America...