Word: waxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creating what amounts to a long, tortured, protracted, hyped-up episode of "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers." The film has all the profundity and credibility of this celebrated kiddy sci-fi vehicle. We must sit, restlessly, as actors whose most memorable feature is their ridiculously large and white teeth wax sentimental about leaving the bonds of friendship, as they compete for girls, as they experience the trials and tribulations of the rigorous military training, yet learn to laugh it all off and put their arms around each other, in short, as they sicken...
...witted as Baily (despite heroic efforts at subtlety by Silence of The Lambs's Ted Levine). Costa-Gavras insists that the FBI are simply caught up in the hubbub, trying to do their job as best they can; but when he depicts Bureau snipers blowing away a wax statue of a Native American in a botched attempt to nail Baily, one starts to suspect a hidden agenda. The writers cite Waco as their inspiration for the story, and a definite anti-FBI bias comes through loud and clear...
...Boston doesn't suit you, the area surrounding the city is filled with scary things to do on Halloween--from haunted houses and castles to horror amusement parks to graveyards and wax museums...
Today, it has become somewhat of a mecca for Halloween wanderers, creating a "Mardi Gras-type atmosphere," says Sean Coughlin, an employee of the Salem Wax Museum...
When Baltimore's baby boomers wax nostalgic about the public schools of the city's past, they do so with some justification. Although class sizes were larger and schools were segregated by law into white and "colored" facilities, attendance was high. In 1950, average daily attendance at Baltimore's senior high schools was a stellar 92% for both black and white children. In 1954, according to city school records, 83.1% of white high school seniors "achieved" in algebra; fully 99.2% of black students did likewise...