Word: youre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE my friend Julia watched helplessly from a nearby canoe, I felt the swift current pulling me towards the rapids. "Keep your feet up! Stay upstream of the canoe!" I thought furiously. "Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!"
Before my mind could locate the most appropriate New Jersey joke for the moment, ("logically impossible" "is your nose clogged or something?") my memory flashed to my last canoeing experience, at summer camp 10 years ago.
I learned that a little adventure can spice up your life, especially if you can spice up the adventure after the fact. At first I called the whole ordeal "a small scare." I later told my brother it was "very dangerous."
Like Harry and Sally, the movie is hardworking, spot on; it winepresses its conversation into epigrams. No surprise here. Reiner found wayward comedy in such genres as the rock documentary (This Is Spinal Tap) and the historical romance (The Princess Bride). Crystal, the improv master who is Reiner's closest...
To describe the plot -- in which we learn that Graham can reach sexual climax only while watching videotapes he has made of women's carnal confessions -- is to make sex, lies sound like a smirking stag reel. But this is not an "adult film" in the X-rated sense; it...