Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toys we are given in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" (Ec 10) to the real world. What is taught in Ec 10 has the dubious virtue of being very, very simple. As Johnson went to such offensive lengths to point out, "(a)nyone who has learned to spell the word economics should understand this theory...
Unfortunately, many of our economics concentrators seem to have stopped thinking critically about the world immediately after learning to spell that word...
They don't teach us to spell that one out in Ec 10, although they do find the time to go over the (ostensibly "value-free") distortionary evils of rent control, the recent elimination of which preceded an increase in Boston/Cambridge homelessness of crisis proportions...
...real. Largely completed before America had heard of Lewinsky, the film comments on the scandal in ways that are downright eerie. Just as the public doesn't know what actually happened between Clinton and Monica--or Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, for that matter--so the movie refuses to spell out what did or didn't happen between Stanton and the women he is accused of bedding. Since unresolved questions and muddied waters are hallmarks of the Clinton presidency, glossing the indiscretions and lingering over the cover-up feels just right. The film moves from Stanton's bimbo containment and opposition...
Suddenly, in walks the chief avatar of thedesensitized '90s and POOF! the spell is broken.On press night, when Tarantino opened a closetdoor to reveal the body of one of his victims,some people actually laughed. And can you blamethem? I mean, this is Quentin Tarantino!They were probably expecting him to kill heron-stage and toss off a twisted one-liner beforeher body hit the floor. They were probablyexpecting him to actually shoot heroin, notjust talk about...