Word: successful
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...most offensive and careless rationalization in Sen's article is his claim that those who undertake real humanitarian work in the public sector are missing the big picture and wasting time. But Teach For America's success in bringing 3,000 of the nation's top college graduates into desperate school systems, the American Red Cross' life-giving assistance to 30 million people annually and even the initiatives of those puny social workers to help broken families piece themselves together can hardly be considered "toothpicks." JEANNIE A. LANG...
...Crimson handled the looks with varyingdegrees of success, relying mainly on senior pointguard Tim Hill to beat the Pioneers downcourt inthe full-court press...
First of all by nothing that dark comedy is where it's at in contemporary Hollywood. The one movie in recent years that was an unqualified success, both critically and commercially, was a sort of dark comedy: Pulp Fiction. Maybe it's more profitable to compare this latest incarnation of the genre to another dark comedy, one trashed by critics and rejected by the public: The Cable Guy. Perhaps only myself and a few other moviegoers, most of them residing in attics or asylums, think that The Cable Guy was a brilliant film. Nonetheless, it's a useful point...
...oneliner. Leading the cast is Ewan McGregor as the young Obi-Wan-Kenobi (if you think about what Titanic did for DiCaprio, imagine what will happen to indie-film-loving McGregor). Lucas knows that characters--unlike many sci-fi special effects extravaganzas--are the key Star Wars' success. Thus, he casts B-list stars that blend into the Star Wars world without ruining the illusion...
...movie adaptation prejudice you against reading the book. Bonfire captured the black comedy of American society and justice during the Me decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned the dapper author a spot on NBC's "Today" and the cover of Time Magazine...