Word: raring
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...People page for the past year, and while she loves the perks of the entertainment beat--movie screenings, parties, beautiful people--she has grown weary of at least one thing. "The opening chords of Entertainment Tonight drive me positively nuts," says Orecklin, who nevertheless perseveres (except on those rare occasions when Jeopardy's siren song proves too strong to ignore). For this week's People page, Orecklin reports on the breakup of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. Although Turner is vice chairman of Time Warner, [parent of TIME's publisher] and a certified big shot, he'll not be spared...
...Classes in which students can feel they actively participate better seize their attention and engage their minds," Todd wrote in an e-mail message. "But some of our professors have the rare talent to conduct a class of 1,000 as if it were a seminar...
...ironic that an institution that was established in part for the study of garden scholarship and as the repository of Bliss' unique collection of rare horticultural and historic garden books should be involved in the possible destruction of one of the country's finest gardens...
...always challenging. It's just such a rare opportunity to do anything that's truthful. Most of the time, you're just trying to when you do these larger Hollywood movies that are very genre- specific, they try to just get you to do it by numbers and cry on cue, and, you know what I mean? With Paul, it's like, even if the thing is so close to home, it never bothers me, because it's that much more truthful and it's that much more original, you know? It's always stranger than fiction...
...artistic quality of Blitzstein's work (which, from the bits represented here, seems questionable) matters less than the fact that it was performed. The final, unexpected shot of the film says in no uncertain terms that its message isn't limited to history. Cradle Will Rock reveals Robbins' rare talent for making accessible entertainment that never compromises its vigorous commitment to ideas...