Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realizes the importance of the "tattoo," the bond that ties the family together; but as he enters the alien realm of his mother and sister's lives, he slowly understands the concept of space. His sister sometimes hates his fraternal interference and his mother ignores his advice. Gradually, each character learns through the trails and tribulations which Leimbach brings home to us so sensitively, that familial relationships precede all others and that the one reliable source of support is the family...
...primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates his true love in order to salvage his ego. As the plot advances, the characters become enmeshed in a web of deceit...
Marvelously harrowing. Last Rights has the voyeuristic magnetism of a horror film. You know it'll deliver a backhanded slap of terror, violence and shock, but you can't help looking. The album's first planned video, "Killing Game," culminates in two alien characters--whose veins are on the outside of their bodies and whose eyes are sewn shut--ripping each other's eyes open...
Anti-Asian sentiment has always existed in America. Legislation like the Alien Land Acts, the Exclusion Acts and the internment during World War II are examples of past government-sponsored injustices toward Asians and Asian Americans...
...husband seems headed for a life of merely annoying everyone around him, and the "celebrities" with whom they associate are fools caught up in fads. Despite the film's humor and high sarcasm, it captures the dark, oppressed life inside the mind of its heroine. She is a selfunderstanding alien in this land of shallow monsters...