Word: antagonistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American Administration, it is full of good sense and studded with occasional insights that will have readers nodding their heads in silent agreement. A particularly good chapter on Asia rebukes anyone who unthinkingly assigns to China the role once played by the Soviet Union as the natural antagonist...
...Sopranos," unavoidably, became just another damn TV show. That it remained still the best, most challenging and ambitious show on TV didn't alleviate the letdown. The popular character Livia lived on, given an understandably deflated role owing to Marchand's real-life illness. Her role as Tony's antagonist was assumed by his estranged sister Janice (Aida Turturro), a flaky West Coastie who threatened to turn the series into yet another - God help us - "quirky drama." Numerous characters were added; some episodes meandered; others - a trip to Italy, his nephew's flirtation with Hollywood - were self-indulgent and untrue...
...title promises and more. Its genetically altered space animals stomp, impale, gulp down, and otherwise commit murder in the name of justice for Earl, the story’s embittered astronaut hero. Earl’s chief opponent, the money-minded space official Dr. Frubar, soon learns that an antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough to create clever scenarios with some sort of reason to them; in the best sequence of the film, he conjures up a planet inhabited...
...Although the pissed-off e-mailers were lifting furiously in the Murr Center and unable to comment on their antagonist, other students were eager to condemn the jock-attack. Varsity rower Michael J. Skey '02 explains he would never have complained to Knobler, saying, "How did athletes learn to surf the net? The only sites I know of are Internet porn...