Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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There are also major problems with the tone of this scene. After a finely controlled, realistic first act, Weiner miscalculates and guides the supporting actors into buffoonish caricatures. The actresses attempting Mel's sisters show no subtlety and more annoying, don't seem to believe in their characters as real people. Even their costumes are cartoonish and inappropriate. As Mel's constrained brother Harry, Jamie Orenstein aims at a fuller characterization, but remains rather wooden...
...these people. There are no "Boats" and "Astro 8" and "gee, I'd better thing up a topic for that eight-page paper due tomorrow." Sleeping through classes no longer seems cool. These students are in class from 8:30 until 5:30, and if this isn't the Real World, it comes a hell of a lot closer than college...
...years. While much of the work amounts to reviewing the basic sciences, the pace is fast and relentless. And just about all the work is done in the classroom. Only in the third and fourth years are students permitted to test their stethescopes at the teaching hospitals and sample real medicine. Vanderbilt houses first- and second-year students--all of whom have had their fill of classrooms in high school and college, and all of whom are just itching to throw on Marcus Welby white jackets and start saving lives. Yet not only are these students back in the classroom...
...which has put together a traditional slot car racing set with a twist--Supersound. Cars rev their motors, the starter's gun sounds, engines roar, tires squeal, and should there be a mishap, should the autos "skid and fly off the track," then there are the sounds of a real "CRRAAASH...
Reischauer, who chairs the group and describes himself as a "personal friend" of Kim's, said Sunday that there is "a real chance Kim's sentence will be commuted" if more groups demand his release...