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...Suddenly audiences could not be counted upon to treat a given wrestler automatically as a villain simply because he was identified as a Russian,” Cantor observes. And the World Wrestling Federation’s new bad-boy of the early 1990s, a pro-apartheid white South African character named Colonel DeBeers, failed to rouse audiences?...
...their members, they represent the very best Harvard has to offer. The high life is served up on a silver platter, featuring regular parties, free travel, and a never-ending stream of nubile young women, eager for their company. Upon graduation, members can expect an advantage in the job market, thanks to large and well-connected alumni networks, whose influence keeps these bastions of Harvard’s social elite rooted so firmly in the past. Though Yale’s equivalents to these societal menaces are more widely known around the world, Harvard’s havens...
Almost immediately upon arriving, Matt’s brother-in-law’s hoodlum brother (Charlie Hunnam, in a fantastic performance) drops by to borrow money before a soccer—sorry, “football”—match...
...this last aspect that makes Matt say, in slightly cheesy voice-over form, “I was about to learn something no Ivy League school in the world could teach me;” basically, he learns to inflict physical rather than mental pain upon others...
...stop-motion claymation creations of Nick Park have an unmistakable humanity. Even if you don’t know them by name, you’ll likely recognize his past characters upon sight: the despondent zoo captives in his Oscar-winning 1989 short, “Creature Comforts,” the Great Escaping cluckers of “Chicken Run,” and the beloved man-and-best-friend duo Wallace and Gromit...