Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Brosh knew that the absurd plight of Eleanor Mann's family had to be acted out with comic melodrama. But, as it has often been said, it takes very good acting to portray bad acting well. And unfortunately, the actors portraying the Mann family and their various persecutors aren't quite that good, so that the audience isn't sure how much of the bad acting is intentional. Indeed, it is a relief when the melodrama is dropped, and Eleanor opts for more sincere tones...
...policy terms, however, the University made a bad deal. Because the Pudding's lease bars the University from interfering in the club's internal affairs, Harvard has put itself in the position of underwriting exclusivity...
...bad for a former manager...
...DRUGS AREN'T good, why is drug-testing bad? Well, the Constitution protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures--it's right there in the Fourth Amendment. The farcical idea now being spread by overzealous advocates of drug-testing is that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to worry about...
These are the same Dirty Harry-type clods who get all worked up when some bad guy "gets off" because his constitutional rights were violated. What they forget--or don't care to understand--is that the Bill of Rights exists to shield the innocent from such harassment. The umbrella of its liberties extends to the guilty to protect better those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...