Word: anger
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Racial discrimination moreover is significantly more prevalent in capital cases. As Bowers and Pierce point out, because death is the supreme form of punishment, reserved for those crimes which most provoke in people, abhorrence and anger, it is also the punishment most subject to "deeply rooted passions and prejudices that will cause its application to depart from the retributive justice model...
ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY CAST with the late Peter Sellers in the lead, Unfaithfully Yours works largely because of Moore's tremendous comic talent. Without resorting to the clownish absurdity of a Steve Martin or the profanity punctuated anger of a Richard Pryor. Moore delivers a comic performance rich in warmth and charisma. Even at slapstick, Moore delivers, pathetically catching his foot in a wall that he kicks in. In some jokes, you just have to be there, in Unfaithfully Yours, just Dudley Moore has to be there...
From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
There comes a time when such excuses become a crutch, and serve no useful purpose, as they have for Israel. Its neighbors are as divided amongst themselves as they are united in anger against Israel. The fact that Israel has few friends internationally is a result of Israel's obstinacy, not any global anti-Semitism. And the country's youth is no excuse--all of the Middle East in a sense is new, having been cut out of whole cloth after World...
...home only to quarrel with his alcoholic father (Kenneth McMillan) and to be kicked out of the house. Later, when his father dies. Quinn almost has a chance to exhibit sensitivity at the burial. But his performance is plagued by overkill. He acts with such superfluous violence and unprovoked anger that his character fails to be realistic. Some of the dialogue is so stereotyped as to be awkward...