Word: armed
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...birthday girl, I was afforded the inevitable honor of, well, getting hammered. The lights were low, and the stereo was playing some ridiculous eighties hit when I felt an arm slink around my waist, “So, sweetheart, how old are you turning? Seventeen...
...pendulous arm of justice, too, presses down on Vera Drake. By the end of the film, it is not just women as a social category who must live without freedom but Vera herself, forced to exchange liberty for captivity and the ultimate sort of crowding—that of a prison...
...many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss...
SquareJobs, a five-month-old job placement arm of the networking site TheSquare.com, offers the same services as other well-known job search sites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com, but limits membership to students and alumni from 40 elite universities, including Harvard...
...course, invading Iraq was a pre-9/11 pet project of the administration’s neocons, repackaged as a response to the al Qaeda attacks. During his confirmation hearing, Paul Wolfowitz told the Senate Armed Services Committee he “would certainly think it was worthwhile” for the U.S. to invade Iraq to achieve regime change. In those heady early days of Bush’s reign, Wolfowitz and fellow administration neocons Armitage, Perle and Rumsfeld tirelessly pushed for the U.S. to arm and lead an Iraqi opposition in toppling Saddam...