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...deranged parents are going to subject their child to even more torture by probably naming their kid Millie, Miles, or Mills. My heart goes out to the poor souls, once again. But the worst is going to be celebrating "Millie's" birthday. Instead of looking forward to a Big Bird cake and Bozo the Clown, each birthday will be a painful reminder that the child was conceived not in an act of love or in the heat of the moment, but as part of a world-wide gimmick and the parents' pathetic efforts to make their mark in the history...
...draw all these dire warnings to a point. "There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings...Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change...There was a strange stillness...The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh...
Made famous by its cameo appearance in "Good Will Hunting," Dunster House's red-capped tower has long been a symbol of old-time Harvard. One House insider says early-bird residents can secure two bed frames at the beginning of the year. This and wood-paneled rooms make Dunster an attractive living space...
...Made famous by its cameo appearance in "Good Will Hunting," Dunster House's red-capped tower has long been a symbol of old-time Harvard. One House insider says early-bird residents can secure two bed frames at the beginning of the year. This and wood-paneled rooms make Dunster an attractive living space...
...this fat little kid, T-Bird, starts a Girl Haters Club in fourth grade, and Laureen Miranda--she's huge--beats him up, and he pops her one, and she rat-finks... As with any good coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes...