Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pointed fingers abundant during Depeche Mode, limits tested by the dense sonic experimentation of This Is My Rifle, emotions wrangled by the sugary-sour pop treat offered up by Blue Wail. The winner of the friendly compe- tition, the extraordinary B-Side, got the crowdon its feet with smart, effortless freestyle rapand a tight groove bound to get anyone withinhearing distance excited...
Before we go direct to HBO, though, it's worth noting that like most good science-fair projects, this one got some help from Mom and Dad. Emily Rosa, now 11, is smart and determined, and really did carry out the experiment, but she is not quite the naive child who saw through the emperor's new clothes. Her mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade, and her stepfather Larry Sarner is chairman of the National Therapeutic Touch Study Group, an anti-TT organization...
...praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance...
...being a Koran-thumping, bomb-toting fanatic, Abdul Koddus is a self-described Islamic liberal, a teddy bear of a man who denounces terrorism and sings the praises of some features of Western democracy. He avoids the austere robes that are de rigueur for bearded hard-liners and favors smart Italian-style sport jackets. In 22 years of marriage, he says, he has never pressured his attractive wife to cover her hair with the Islamic hijab, as required by strictly observant Muslims. "Yes, I have a beard, but I trim it every day so that my wife can kiss...
Their efficiency and longevity presented certain problems to director Richard Linklater (Slacker) and his co-screenwriters. He has cast some of Hollywood's hottest young guns--notably Matthew McConaughey, who plays smart very well, and Ethan Hawke, who has a nice slippery charm as the gang's smoothest talker. Best of all, Linklater chose ER's Julianna Margulies to play the woman McConaughey courts and marries. She is beguiling both in her initial skepticism and in her loyalty when things start to go bad for the boys...