Word: swamp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first appears to be. Flannigan takes the word "professional" to another level entirely, transforming halfway through the movie from one unconvincing role to another. First, she is caring, wide-eyed, in awe of Cross, then suddenly she is cruel and contemptuous in a plot twist worthy of the trashy swamp thriller Wild Things. But that's divulging too much already...
...administration and legislators on both sides of the aisle have pledged their support for a serious U.S. commitment to fight AIDS in Africa. In order for them to succeed in boosting U.S. involvement, however, their voices must be amplified by the voice of the public. We must swamp Washington in letters, phone calls, news pieces and other indications that America cares about AIDS in Africa. Simultaneously, pressure must be brought to bear on drug companies to lower the price of AIDS drugs to developing countries to the cost of production. Students must answer the calls of a global conscience...
...social devolution. It's an action-packed tale but light in every other way, although its tone can be very, very heavy. Abortion figures in, and much is made of changing mores in the era just preceding Roe v. Wade, but the quest for relevance founders in a swamp of hyperspecific, unnecessary stage directions and commercial-fiction panting about uncertain futures and what have you. So wait for the movie (the rights have already been bought). Then...
When George W. Bush finally pulled his presidency from the Florida swamp, the predictions were dire. Bush would be a man without a mandate, unable to move his agenda through the divided Senate. His plan to use Texas charm to win friends and influence lawmakers was dismissed as laughable, a rube's view of the capital...
...really. The majority of the Supreme Court yanked a bad tooth that was dangerously abscessing. They rescued America from the Great Dismal Swamp. They saved the nation from an electoral Vietnam - a quagmire of open-ended, ever-deepening conflict that would have torn the country farther apart, radicalized the middle, and spilled into the streets...