Word: upone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sidelines of sexual play. It details how, in their conquest of a hookup, some encounters go right, and how some result in terrible tragedy--the most noticeable being the date rape of Sara (Tara Reid)--but from there simply degenerates into melodrama. Body Shots attempts to impress upon the audience their social commentary of sex in the '90s, and by the end it is a tiring cacophony of discordant themes...
...electoral politics, already dearly deserving scrutiny. Municipal elections in Cambridge operate on a system of proportional representation, which in its simplest conception dictates that representation in elected government should reflect not merely the majority will, but a portion of the vote in proportion to its size. Cambridge relies upon a particularly intricate system to achieve this end: candidates are ranked by voters and their preferences tallied in a number of successive counts. Those candidates who surpass a predetermined quota are elected, and the votes are redistributed appropriately for subsequent counts, until all nine city councilors have been determined...
...Once upon a time, students who wished to catch a cinematic screening at the Loews Fresh Pond Theaters faced a daunting trek. After dashing down the alley path from the T, avoiding vehicular death on Rindge Avenue, adventurers found themselves atop a mountain from which they could spy the neon movie sign glowing like a beacon in the distance. Only the bravest could carry on; the mission demanded they rappel down the gravely dirt mound and, finally, leap from the wall to get to their flicks...
This deeply disturbed Osborn and she writes that we have been, "reduced to debating the benefits of bestowing the title of martyr upon Littleton victim Cassie Bernall." She calls this, "emblematic of the problems with the current debate surrounding religion in public schools...
...news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition that runs from Socrates to Kierkegaard of using irony to knock people off of ideas they have long and lazily stood upon. That use, I think, isn't what's bothering Purdy...