Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope would be that every single gov concentrator would vote, as I would hope they turn in every paper on time," he said...
...debate it as a manifesto about the media leads one down the road to nonsense. In his review in New York magazine, Peter Rainer writes that "Maybe people soaked in pop culture are increasingly looking for an all-purpose pop culture explanation for why everything has turned out so lousily. As explanations go, this sort of thing makes a superficial kind of sense, and it's more fun to play around with than Marxism or Freudianism or just about any other ism." Ick. Somebody, please, turn off the critics and pass the popcorn...
...their real world sensibilities. As the ideas they bring with them (art, sex, danger) leak into the town, color starts appearing on roses, on houses and eventually on people. Not knowing what will happen the next day and learning to live with real human emotions are what turn the denizens of Pleasantville into genuine human beings. It's not such an easy moral, though: the introduction of freedom in Pleasantville leads to assorted unpleasantries like book burning and bans against the "colored" people, and seemingly peachy-keen marriages are disrupted. On the flip side, the two teens are also made...
...however we got here, I really do think that it is dangerous for the country if we cannot reverse the trend. Our task is to turn the tide, not curse at the waves," he wrote...
...least if your name happened to be Bush. Jeb in Florida and George W. in Texas both coasted to victory in what may be a foretaste of the next presidential election. Elsewhere, it seems, the religious conservative base of the Republican party was simply not motivated enough to turn out in the same kind of numbers that made 1994 such a watershed. Does that mean President Clinton is off the hook? Not according to Branegan. "After a deep breath of one or two days," he says, "the Washington establishment will again be baying at the moon of impeachment...