Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying, and she summons her son to Sicilia for the occasion. As he leaves Loretta, he asks her to visit his brother and settle the bad blood between them...
...wall at Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School in New York's tough South Bronx. The school tries to live up to the prescription. No hats can be worn inside Cardinal Hayes school, nor is there any room for blue jeans or sneakers, beards or mustaches, profanity, alcohol or "bad attitudes." Bad attitudes involve anything that contradicts the school's motto: "For God and country...
...celibacy. And everyone knows the cure for both of these unfortunate conditions: a man. Any man. The good news about these two small movies -- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and High Tide -- is that they permit their heroines ambiguous triumphs over this conventional wisdom. The bad news is that neither movie dares triumph over the conventionally compassionate view of the women. Or, for that matter, over the limits of conventionally mannered filmmaking...
...Press; 224 pages; $15.95). Peters' narratives suffer from cuteness and rarely make medieval people come alive as convincingly as, say, the ancient Greeks and Persians in the novels of Mary Renault. But she weaves a plot ably and is extremely effective at dividing the world into good guys and bad guys and working up the reader's rooting interest...
...caught violating the around-the-clock curfew that has confined tens of thousands to their homes. At least ten of those beaten required hospitalization. Government leaders conceded that the pummeling would do nothing to enhance Israel's prestige around the world. Said a senior official: "Our image has been bad, and I'm afraid it will remain so with this new policy...