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With these depressing convictions in mind, I went into E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’s 20th Anniversary rerelease with basement-level expectations. And I was startled: E.T. is not a terrible film. It’s not a classic, or even a particularly good film, but it doesn’t embarrass itself in Spielberg’s traditional and self-importantly mawkish fashion. The story is a simple one—boy (Elliot, played by Henry Thomas) meets alien (E.T.), boy befriends alien, boy helps alien escape the authorities and return to his people. Within this framework, Spielberg...
Preparation for the transformation has already begun: The students about to embark on this particular variety of the Spring Break trip have logged umpteen hours at the gym as of late, desperately trying to firm up the winter’s extra padding in one week. (This also explains the group of guys dropping for push-ups every half-hour on St. Patty’s Day.) They have frequented the tanning salons in an attempt to hide their pasty-white Cambridge complexions. They have endured the torment of the waxing chair, modeled their trunks and bikinis in front...
Opponents of the amendment claimed that higher mileage standards mean smaller and more dangerous cars. Sadly, car manufacturers have said that higher efficiency requirements will create higher costs for consumers. This may be true in the short term, but over the life of a car, the extra production cost is well worth it when the huge savings in fuel costs is taken into account...
...have no extra space, though, nor do we have space in which the school could grow,” he says...
Blickstead said the rides, extra food and better band for an expected 6,000 guests are all possible because of the additional funding provided by the president’s office...