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Still, the worst of high school fringe groups do seem more disturbed than in the past. The awkward kids aren't just smiling inappropriately during science-lab frog dissections. Some high schools have white supremacist cliques. Then there are groups like the Straight Edge, a presence at schools like Salt Lake City's Kearns High School. They are puritanical punkers who are anti-drug, anti-alcohol, and anti-tobacco--and they are violent. If you smoke or drink in their presence, some Straight Edgers will attack you with a baseball...
...horror film, Idle Hands is not so much a derivative send-up a la Scream as it is an all-out joke-fest, mocking itself as much as the genre. Of course, Idle Hands is no masterpiece. The plot borders on thin, the ending is a bit awkward, and some of the jokes feel stale. And, in case you haven't gotten the picture by now, DO NOT bring your grandmother to see this one. Easily offended moviegoers should definitely steer clear...
...from the chaos of dialect, of ignorance and of setting emerges the poignant symmetry of a love triangle. In seventeen short scenes, these three characters play out their strange and beautiful love affairs unselfconsciously and without histrionics. The self-assured and bombastic Henry's awkward gift of a lipstick is completely believable, and Mae kissing Henry's mind is the most romantic moment I've encountered all semester...
...Many viewers observe the awkward silence. "Usually you don't know the other people," says Uttam K. Tambar `00. "So usually you just sit there, and that's weird--cause you're used to watching T.V. with your friends...
...from the NATO side in order to be able to broker an agreement," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But NATO won't offer anything until the Russians can show some movement from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated air war, NATO commander Wesley Clark acknowledged that the air campaign has had little effect...