Word: sixteener
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...popular culture didn't give me much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...
...were then ordered to produce Harvard identification cards. I watched the police officer grab his gun as I slowly reached for my wallet. (I had learned to reach for my wallet slowly after having a .9 millimeter pistol placed at my temple during a "routine traffic stop" at age sixteen). After a close examination of our pictures and our faces, the cards were returned. We were then offered, not an apology, but an explanation. It turns out that a Black male had committed an armed robbery in Cambridge earlier that afternoon, and, naturally, we are suspects...
...costume and set design also majestically frame this scene. Unfortunately, this act also includes Carla Stalling's failure as the Queen to both act and dance, and the repetition of odd, graceless flittery arm choreography by the court fairies. By the end of act one, the youthful and energetic sixteen year old Aurora has pricked her finger on Casabosse's poisoned spindle in a beautiful pastoral garden scene while dancing with four foreign princes. The Lilac Fairy saves her by putting a spell on the castle and everyone within its walls falls into a deep sleep...
...missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...fight for free speech. By the end of the movie the Federal Communications Commission has been sent in to stop the show. As if painting the school's administrators as automatons enforcing social pressure on teenagers is not enough, the writer brings in the Feds to rein-force the "Sixteen Candles' meets 1984" theme of the film...