Back when the show was in its comfort zone, its brilliant rendition of the aspirational advertising scene in early '60s America, the show could afford to be as hermetically sealed as it frequently was.
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The whole scene is less than aspirational.
There is little of the kind of aspirational dining that defines the restaurant scene in New York or San Francisco; people eat for pleasure, not for sport, and the word "foodie" is a recent import.
He hijacked a plane and prompted the Cypriot president to chuckle: 'Always there is woman involved.'" You can imagine these scenes reconfigured as witty, passionate, aspirational declarations of love.
Among much else, that makes for more compelling behind-the-scenes stories for fans and aspirational players.
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All of these scenes are undercut by the play's aspirational tug of moral seriousness and psychological complexity.
He and Maher were working on a moment, in the second scene, when Sam, a Massachusetts homeboy, joshes the aspirational Avery about his "shit phobia"; there's an awkward silence as Sam's mind runs dry of further witticisms.
Running through this scene is the book's basic feeling: an evangelism for personal betterment, for aspirational living.
We thought, Wouldn't it be cool and aspirational if the girls got to be in a movie starring Lindsay Lohan Bennetttt mused about My Scene.
