Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume that most if not all of you on the Crimson staff, including your cartoonist, are still comfortably dependent on your parents for your financial needs. Therefore, you have yet to experience the realities of being self-supporting, especially in Boston which has the third highest cost of living in the nation...
DURING an episode of "Family Ties," big brother Alex P. Keaton, the self-proclaimed genius of the family, forced younger sister Jennifer to undergo a neurotic academic experience, convincing her to read volumes of case law and dress as the Statue of Liberty for her seventh grade oral report on "How a Bill Becomes...
...political opponents or from an academic elite, but also from people like Jay Leno and David Letterman, who hardly received Rhodes scholarships themselves. It isn't just a matter of Ivy League students disparaging people who don't go to college; friends at home, from laborers to the self-employed to college dropouts, claim they sometimes feel inferior and less intelligent because they never received a degree...
...that the pastoral mode is on its last legs today, weakened by irony and excess self-consciousness; although a vivid little tablet of color by Howard Hodgkin, In the Public Garden, Naples, 1981-82, argues that it can still be used without a false note. But this show leaves no doubt about how much it mattered to earlier generations of artists or how enduringly grounded in man's desire for consolation it proved...
...what truly distinguishes this film is Parker's acute reimagining of a time and place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by the local lawmen that any crime was committed at all; the steadily mounting campaign of violence intended to terrorize everyone into complicity in this lie -- all of this is handled with a deft and compulsive power...