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...heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character called Skitzy, who talks in voices high and low, has two personalities, and eerily resembles the shopping-bag ladies who wander big-city streets...
Ultimately, one must go to the fighting front to find out what is really happening there. The Iraqis have built hillocks topped with markers to show the way: here an arrow-shaped stone, there a palm frond. To miss these is to wander into the extensive Iraqi minefields. Forcing the Iranians into those minefields is one secret of Iraq's success. At one point two miles from the international border, the sand is littered with Iranian bodies as far as the eye can see, when it is not squinting against the blowing sand. An Iraqi bulldozer is pushing...
...Tempest, Mazursky is describing not only a mid-life crisis but, metaphorically, the need of an artist-entertainer to escape the pressure to be both profitable and profound. "I wanna quit, I wanna get out, I wanna travel, dream, wander!" Cassavetes exclaims. Mazursky seconds the emotion the only way he knows how: by making a movie about not wanting to be involved in the business of moviemaking. Eventually, though, the artist must return home chaste and chastened. The climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing...
Should you wander from the straight and narrow path in the academic realm, the Handbook has plenty of provisions for steering you back toward propriety. Heavily over committed to various athletic and social diversions, let's say, you decided to lift an article from Sports Illustrated for an essay due the next day. (True story; Boy Scouts' honor.) The only problem is that the issue is from that week, and your section leader has just finished it himself. Hello, Ad Board; hello, page 38: "In preparation of all papers and other work submitted to most course requirements, students should...
...against the ivy, however some fear the University will no longer be recognizable. As one student said at a "save the ivy" rally. "When I first came here...I knew I was at Harvard by the ivy on the walls." University administrators have privately expressed fears that freshpeople who wander off campus could become forever lost in the ivyless maze of Cambridge...