Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Poor Alanis. In the mid '90s, she was loved, adored. She could have been elected President. And now, she's reviled, pitied, parodied. Whereas before she was sailing right down the mainstream, Alanis now polarizes audiences. Alanis Unplugged, her new live album, is even more likely to split audiences because it combines hits from Jagged Little Pill, songs from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, a few cover songs (the Police's "King of Pain," for instance) and a couple of new ones. It's a mish-mash of the old and new Alanis. Jagged Little Pill, remember, didn't have...
...scenes of tension replace scenes of relaxation. Visually, each scene has an obnoxious similarity to the one before. Despite the melodrama and technique slip-ups, Almodvar allows the women to learn about themselves even though each woman creates a new reality within her existence. Manuela pretends to be a poor theater aficionado, Agrado pretends to be a real woman, Huma wishes to run from a heart broken by her cocaine-snorting junkie girlfriend, and Sister Rosa must hide from the order and her parents. Yet in this situation, four women learn that the kindness of strangers and the spontaneous solidarity...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...plus governments at the meetings would be hard enough, without the added complexity of the kaleidoscope of interest groups and activists that have turned the streets of Seattle into a mix of protests, political muscle-flexing and violence. The WTO is portrayed by its supporters as protector of the poor and bulwark of global prosperity, and by its foes as an unaccountable, secretive body riding roughshod over workers rights and the environment...
Lecturer on Education Vicki A. Jacobs, who co-authored with Chall The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind (1990), said Chall constantly applied her research to her work with the literacy...