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Taking these experiences into account, celebrating Valentine’s Day in an environment essentially free of sexual expectations was liberating. Going to a Catholic school with a class of 48 girls was a culture shock after graduating one of 460 from a co-ed public middle school, and the creeping approach of Valentine’s Day threw the absence of boys into high relief—not to say that I had a lot of game in middle school, or even that my “romantic” encounters went at all beyond shy flirtation with...
...That’s just how it goes.” But it is simply the hand these players have been dealt. “Just the fact that it’s been three coaches in such a short span of time, the feeling of surprise and shock hits us,” Mann said. “[It’s] not towards Walsh but just anger at the situation, and some of the girls have been placed in it year after year.” —Staff writer Walter E. Howell can be reached...
...acting as his own psychoanalyst, plumbing the past to unearth some terrible secret, which he then tries to exorcise - all right, by becoming a serial killer. That's a twist, though hardly a surprise to the people seeing this movie. Nor will Hannibal's method stir the shock of the new in moviegoers. He simply becomes the hero of a standard revenge plot...
...reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with him - which makes us all the more vulnerable to the shock treatments of Heart-Shaped Box, since, as Hill observes, "Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst...
...gush scandal, contrive imagined scenes, and give undue importance to an ever-shuffling deck of secondary characters. This ratio, if it were inverted, might have made for an entertaining, perceptive, and focused presentation of the facts. Sadly, “American Bloomsbury” centers so much on shock factor that it completely breezes over necessary information (like a mention of the Bloomsbury Group—the 20th century British intellectual bohemians for whom this book is named). “American Bloomsbury” feels wedged between genres, stuck in limbo between educated reading and fluff. Cheever?...