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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When one of their pranks misfires, the four are sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, and we hear the doors of a new genre, the prison picture, clang shut. A group of guards led by Sean Nokes (Kevin Bacon at his slimiest) subject them to beatings and gang rapes. These ordeals are discreetly handled by Levinson, who makes us fully aware of their horrors without becoming graphically realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMES OF THE HEART | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...purest, slimiest form (see above), plagiarism is basically a bad thing. This kind of plagiarism entails dishonesty, thievery and stupidity--all things of which I am generally not fond. I copied an "original" limerick about a camel straight out of a children's poetry book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Don't Shade Your Eyes! | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

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