Word: smith
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...light. Who wouldn't want their job? Who else could they be but the Men in Black ("MiB" for short: beats "ID4" any day, doesn't it?), "protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe"? Who else could they be but Tommy Lee Jones '69 and Will Smith in one of the most hyped movies of the season...
There is some consensus here, and indeed throughout Hutchinson, about what should be done: "Kill the damn things." But the men at Skaets disagree somewhat on tactics. Earle Smith, a "semiretired" carpet retailer, proposes opening the fairgrounds to hunters and charging "a dollar a dog." Bill Moran, a fully retired manager of a grain company, thinks they could be a fine addition to the menu at Skaets. And Don Collins Jr., who still has a few years before retirement, looks through the window at the cold rain and suggests that the offending rodents might make excellent earmuffs...
...Show, the Bill & Ted adventures). Early on, they do right by Lowell Cunningham's comic-book premise: that extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government has an elite corps of FBI-style agents (notably Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line. Ah, this explains everything: Velcro, liposuction, the microwave oven and why the 1964 World's Fair was held in Queens...
This mad, mad world is inventively drawn; Smith and Jones make a finely mismatched pair. But, as in many comedies, all the good stuff is in Act I. So much energy is spent on the premise that little is left for the payoff. Men in Black suffocates from the facetiousness that gave it life, and the movie ends up less like Independence Day than like the hectic Mars Attacks...
Today, someone graduating from a private institution such as Smith College can graduate with debt in excess...