Word: script
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
Some people find finger a useful tool; those in the know use it to "talk" friends across campus, to see if someone's read their mail or just to keep tabs on their friends. Some people have what the computer literate refer to as a "stalk script" to let them know when their friends are logged on. That's fine, but the choice to make that information public should be the student's and not the University's. To protect the computer illiterate (an endangered, Luddite few), incoming first-year accounts should all be set inaccessible unless explicitly changed...
Network executives are supposed to say things like that, but an early 50-page script for the Family Guy pilot makes it clear that MacFarlane, at just 25, is a prodigiously talented writer. Family Guy, which is set in a sleepy Rhode Island city, falls squarely within the medium's venerable archetype of familial dysfunction, which is to say that Mom, Lois, is a saint; Dad, Peter, is a boob; the kids are mutants (baby Stewie, for instance, is an evil genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots...
...time touring the country memorializing Martin Luther King Jr., then receiving the Pope. Lott's no fool -- the Mississipian can no doubt easily imagine the scene as the Pontiff arrives to comfort the popular President while he himself is mired in a failing prosecution. Lott wants to rewrite the script...
...that Joe tends to make a scary first impression even on sympathetic souls, and the director is blessed with inviting performances by Charlize Theron as Jill Young, the light of Joe's life, and Bill Paxton as Joe's rival for her affection. Maybe the update on the old script strains a bit over the implacability and resources of Joe's enemies, but his daring, concluding rescue of an imperiled child--this time the setting is an exploding amusement park, not a flaming orphanage--effectively stirs both suspense and sentiment. This Christmas you could do worse than introduce the kids...