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...help matters. Though profitable, his roles were always thoroughly digestible for a conservative public. More often than not they portrayed him as a rebellious figure eventually tamed by his love for a beautiful girl. Elvis was becoming little more than a syrupy teen idol. It was as if Sid Vicious had become David Cassidy. The record and film industries shamelessly exploited his bad-boy image and Elvis passively held on for the ride...
...It’s a vicious cycle,” Willett says. “The debt for students is hard to pay off, and people who graduate from here don’t earn much. [Therefore] alumni can’t increase our endowment, and then we’re short of financial...
...Cassie Mayweather is a tenacious sleuth whose strategies reflect a trauma in her own life. With men she's the sexual aggressor, jumping on her new partner and, when the party's over, literally pushing him out of bed. When she builds a case against two boys for a vicious killing, she wants to destroy the slick one (Ryan Gosling) who reminds her of her brutal ex-husband, and save the sensitive one (Michael Pitt) who reminds her of herself. Bullock powerfully blends and isolates these aspects of Cassie to show that her strengths and her frailties have a single...
...true. "It's much safer when the river's full," said Mr. Hong, the captain. "April is the worst time. It's very hard to dodge the rocks." And indeed, it was white-knuckle stuff in some sections, where the river narrowed dramatically between towers of scoured rock. Vicious eddies buffeted and sucked at the boat as we bobbed perilously close to hull-ripping crags. The waterway's violence was apparent everywhere; shipwrecks bleached on the banks alongside vast uprooted trees...
...many a gossiper’s dismay, Mather’s “Decadenza” failed to live up to its lecherous and depraved advertisements. In fact, there was more excitement in the onslaught of vicious Mather-open e-mails slamming the neon ads for the dance that promised free entrance for first-year females than in the dance itself...