Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revision. Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, has shown just how easy it is to create a false memory. In a study to be published this summer, Loftus asked older siblings or other relatives of 24 people to make up a story about the younger person being lost at the mall between the ages of four and six. While 18 participants insisted that the incident had never happened, six of them not only believed the story but also developed their own memories of the fictitious event...
...taught creative writing at a small Pittsburgh college. Instead, he spends his time smoking huge amounts of marijuana and churning out thousands of pages of his own novel, also called Wonder Boys, which he knows he will never finish. James Leer, one of Grady's students, is twenty years younger but no less screwed up. An awkward loner and closeted homosexual, James has an obsession with Hollywood suicides that nearly leads him to blow his brains...
Brando plays Jack as a passive voyeur, listening intently to Depp's recounting of the amorous exploits as if he is bestowing some machismo title to the younger actor. He even gives Depp his trademark hug and kiss on both cheeks, as if to bring him into the family...
...screen relationship between Brando and his younger co-star oddly echoes his appearance in 1990's "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick, which was touted as Brando's last film. With Broderick happily pursuing a career in Broadway musicals, perhaps Brando felt obligated to come out of retirement and reselect a successor to assume his unique place in American cinema...
...shouldn't be tried. Most college students, after all, are legal adults, capable of consent, and a university of all places should respect personal liberty. Professor bell hooks at City College in New York, who had affairs with professors while a student and once became the lover of a younger man after she had taught him, says, "No feminist thinks that banning abortions would keep women from having them. So why do we think that banning relationships between faculty and students will keep them from having them...