Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows everything. I don't mean she knows I stay up past midnight or don't pay my library fines. I mean she knows I smoke, I drink, I alter my mind, I didn't wait until marriage--stuff that makes the parents reach for the smelling salts or the shotgun, depending on the household, the guilt of impersonating the angelic 18-year-old before my parents had been the only shadow over my heady new discoveries. But I was torn between the attraction of filial honesty and the terror of parental persecution...
Smoke Signals, which is adapted from some of his own short stories by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre, obviously wants to get at primal stuff. And in its little way it does. But the largest pleasure of this very small film, which is being promoted as the first feature largely created by Native Americans, lies in the relationship between its two young travelers. Off the reservation where they were born and raised, they present contrasting faces to the outside world. Victor wants to be silent, stoic, dangerously enigmatic--sort of an old-fashioned movie Indian. Thomas, who seems...
...pretty clear now that the main strategy here is to let Clinton be Clinton. He's really acting in campaign mode, doing town meetings and stuff that he'd do in America. He's giving them a little exposure to U.S.-style pizzazz. But we're still waiting for that first rope line...
...court battle over the Communications Decency Act only decided if "indecent" and "patently offensive" publications would be permitted online. They are. But obscenity laws are still on the books, and target selling or distributing sexually explicit images without redeeming scientific, literary, political or artistic value. Translation: Hardcore stuff...
...Spinning off the Fox Group means Murdoch can show investors his juiciest stuff and use the proceeds to pay off some of News Corp.'s sizable debt load -- which should pay off in a rising stock price. (News Corp. immediately gained $2 on the announcement.) And if there isn't exactly synergy between a baseball team and a movie studio in the entertainment industry, the formula works on Wall Street. Says Schwartz: "He's maximizing the value that he has by putting all the hot properties on sale together." Just imagine if the Dodgers start winning...