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...written in 1976. You’d think that between 1976 and 2006 the stories would have lost their ability to relate to a mass audience, but really, the fact that the characters are just as realistic and moving today as they were 30 years ago is really a testament to how well the show was originally written.Shields: And the cool thing about that is that it is, even though it still relates, it’s definitely now.—Candace I. Munroe
...haven't really thought through what, on a human and social level, it would mean. Could we survive? Would we want to? Would we pull together or feed on one another? That millions can handle the question, in literature or a soft-focus made-for-CBS version, may be testament to our willingness to face the times--to put ourselves mentally, for a while, where Dick Cheney lives 24/7...
...junior Congressman with little name recognition in Tennessee beyond his native Memphis has managed to force the state's thoroughly entrenched Republicans into a panicked sweat is a testament to Republican overconfidence and Ford's charisma. Political observers say Republicans - and even some Democrats - were all too certain that no amount of support from national Democrats could convince conservative Tennesseans to send a young black candidate from a family tainted by political corruption to the Senate. Against all political wisdom and warnings that he was throwing money away, Ford, who had no primary opponents, launched his campaign in April, even...
...life, the film is gentle and forgiving. Through Coppola’s lens, Marie’s excess and indulgence achieve a sort of wistful purity and tragic transcendence, as if sadly embodying a spoiled, yet lonely child’s melancholic yearning. The movie is, above all, a testament to incongruity and ambivalence: much as Marie is at once dangerously unrestrained and wholly stifled, Coppola herself is simultaneously attentive to historic detail and not unpleasantly anachronistic in her revisionism. Seamlessly integrating 80s post-punk in the most sublime of ways, there’s something undeniably lovely...
...other linebackers,” Murphy said. “He has great integrity and he’s such an understated guy, yet [he’s] experienced and proven. He’s a natural to lead those guys.”It’s a testament to the cohesiveness of the Crimson defense that they have yet to allow an opponent to have over 100 yards rushing in a game. In fact, the last time an opposing runner ran for over 100 yards was on September 24th, 2005 when Nick Hartigan of Brown University...