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May 3rd, 2003
Saved provides a smart critique of the evangelical teen subculture
I went to Saved , a new comedy about teenagers in a Christian high school expecting to get a few laughs at the expense of bible-based yokels. ...
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April 18th, 2003
Better Luck Tomorrow Brings Welcome Complexity to Asian America
With this film, it's tempting, oh-so-tempting, to make the expected references to classic rock songs: "The Kids Are Alright." "Teenage Wasteland." "Another Brick in the Wall."
But that's not the world that spawned the kids of ...
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April 15th, 2003
This Fast Track May Cause You to Stall
There is no question that the American entertainment industry has quite an influence on the American public. People interviewed by Jay Leno during his Jay Walking skit are perfect examples of how ...
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April 10th, 2003
Filesharing Isn't Unethical or Killing the Music Business
Lest we forget?
When the Cincinnati Bengals were in the 1988 Super Bowl (yes, really), a local radio station cobbled together rousing stadium anthems with such audio gems as "The Who-Dey Rap," and the mix was ...
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April 9th, 2003
The Dull Ache of Addiction in Owning Mahowny
It's the early 1980's. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dan Mahowny, a Toronto bank manager whose body is as soft and slow as his mind is sharp and quick. Mahowny moves ...
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April 9th, 2003
Mister Rogers Helped Us All to Grow Up
I was talking with my wife recently about how someone
we know shelters her children. She protects her children from the daily tragedies that she encounters and controversy never enters her ...
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April 9th, 2003
Billy Goats, the Bambino, and the Charlie Brown in All of Us
According to baseball superstition, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox are cursed. The Red Sox curse came in 1920, courtesy of Babe Ruth, the Bambino himself, ...
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April 4th, 2003
Def Poetry Jam on Broadway
From ghetto to ghetto
In his 1990 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" Dana Gioia mourned the relegation of poetry to an "intellectual ghetto" where poets only write for ...
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April 3rd, 2003
On the Job Where Columbia Should Have Landed
The space program is so flatly braided into my life that I use it as an alarm clock. When an orbiter (for that is the proper, NASA-ized name for the part ...
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April 2nd, 2003
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
This being my first year as a paying Sports Illustrated subscriber, I was watching my mailbox this week with a mixture of curiosity and indignance. It's Swimsuit Issue Season, that dreary ...
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