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After Dole criticized Trainspotting, it was pointed out that actually the movie shows some distinctly unromantic aspects of heroin addiction. Advertisements, on the other hand, are supposed to display people whose lives you'd like to emulate by buying the product. That is why those cigarette billboards show vibrant young people who have shiny white teeth and lungs that presumably bear no resemblance at all to a rusted-out tailpipe...
...similarities fool you, or discourage you. Underneath the "inconspicuous stripes and the inoffensive solids," we are one of the most interesting and vibrant and exciting and diverse communities of people that will ever come together with a common purpose and a shared experience. In one of his welcoming pieces to the Class of '98, President Neil L. Rudenstine alluded to this unique and powerful character of the Harvard community, and he was right. There will probably never be another moment in our lives when we are surrounded by so many intelligent, thoughtful, different people from whom to learn and with...
...begin with, these topics may be old, but they are vital and unresolved. If we allow our attention to waver simply because we've heard it all before, then perhaps we've been watching a little too much television. Additionally, there are new ideas out there which are vibrant and exciting. For instance, Clinton's plan to raise an army of one million volunteers to ensure that all third-graders can read has the potential to wipe out illiteracy in this country. Of course, it is legitimate to be cynical as to whether Clinton can, or will, implement this bold...
India has all the elements to be a vibrant cult cinema in the U.S.--the next Hong Kong. And God Is My Witness is a great place for Americans to start supping at the banquet that is Bollywood...
...been forced to go to the airport because the Pan Am phone lines were busy all day, and the only news we were getting was from TV. By the time I was in the motel it was late at night, and I had learned the truth. My charming, vibrant daughter, my Theo who sang like an angel and had a golden future, was dead at age 20. Had a gun been handy I might very well have shot myself. Instead there was nothing to do but cry and scream and crawl along the floor...