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...instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman...
This situation might look like a pure substitution of early action for early decision, but it's not. The University of Pennsylvania's early applications were up by 25 percent, even though it has only an early decision program. So the systems themselves cannot be the entire cause...
...underdog is not always pure. When Villanova beat George-town to win the 1986 NCAA basket-ball championship, it was perhaps the greatest upset in college basketball history. Georgetown was led by Patrick Ewing, and had only lost once that season (by one point to St. Johns), while Villanova barely made the Tournament...
Part of the Presidents' apparent shell shock could be attributed to pure exhaustion. They had been negotiating almost nonstop for three weeks and around the clock for several days before the signing ceremony. Part of their mood may have been introspection, a feeling of concern about just what they were doing and how it would be received by the most passionate combatants at home. It was inevitable that some diehards would consider the settlement, any settlement, unsatisfactory...
This is class exploitation, pure and simple. What next--"homeless people so hungry they eat their own scabs"? Or would the next step be to pay people outright to submit to public humiliation? For $50 would you confess to adultery in your wife's presence? For $500 would you reveal your 13-year-old's girlish secrets on Ricki Lake? If you were poor enough, you might...