Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather ludicrous plot centers on Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa), a 17 years-old whose only ambition is to sit around watching TV and smoking pot. One day Anton's hand becomes possessed by a psychotic killer and try as he might, he can't stop it from killing everything and everyone in his sight. Anton's pesky appendage even offs his good-for-nothing friends (Seth Green and Elden Henson), but don't worry--they quickly return as undead...
...left empty. It tells of the mother's struggle to erase the loneliness and emptiness of the room by redecorating it. "The room was his and empty, so his mother/tamed the walls to various subtle pastels/very close in shade but cold and ruffled/ to have to have each other/to sit with...
...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...
...Many viewers observe the awkward silence. "Usually you don't know the other people," says Uttam K. Tambar `00. "So usually you just sit there, and that's weird--cause you're used to watching T.V. with your friends...
What I feel I have missed most, however, is the collective experience of being in a classroom. The social atmosphere differentiates a real course from a correspondence course or classes at the University of Phoenix, a new on-line university. Choosing where to sit, whispering conversations with your neighbor, scoping out fellow students, writing down memorable quotes from the instructor--these are things that make going to class worthwhile. And at the end of the term, you feel as though you have endured something together with your classmates. In high school, I had friends I hung out with outside...