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...from the chaos of dialect, of ignorance and of setting emerges the poignant symmetry of a love triangle. In seventeen short scenes, these three characters play out their strange and beautiful love affairs unselfconsciously and without histrionics. The self-assured and bombastic Henry's awkward gift of a lipstick is completely believable, and Mae kissing Henry's mind is the most romantic moment I've encountered all semester...
...read girly magazines. Elle, Jane, Cosmo --they sit on the supermarket racks while I zoom through the express lane. Sure, I used to peruse the pages of Seventeen during slumber parties--but I never bought my own subscription. Magazines like these, I thought, just market insecurity. Feeling unattractive? All you need is that new shade of lipstick from L'Oreal. Boyfriend not treating you right? Try this new diet; he'll be eating out of your hand. I guess this attitude doesn't make me a good candidate to review the trendy new men's mag, Maxim, but I have...
...READ GIRLY MAGAZINES. ELLE, JANE, COSMO--THEY sit on the supermarket racks while I zoom through the express lane. Sure, I used to peruse the pages of Seventeen during slumber parties--but I never bought my own subscription. Magazines like these, I thought, just market insecurity. Feeling unattractive? All you need is that new shade of lipstick from L'Oreal. Boyfriend not treating you right? Try this new diet, he'll be eating out of your hand. I guess this attitude doesn't make me a good candidate to review the trendy new men's mag, Maxim, but I have...
...struggle to integrate her life as a mother with her life as a motivated, bright students is complicated by the emotional issues attached to the rape which she has been a victim and her heart wrenchingly adolescent yearning for the life of the girls she sees in Seventeen. Her survival in spite of such daunting obstacles becomes for us a shining example of the triumph of the human spirit...
...Seventeen other colleges and universities, including all the Ivy League schools, have also indicated their intentions to affiliate with the FLA, which was created in November by the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP), a national coalition of groups working against sweatshops...