Word: bastardize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then argues that gays in the military should have separate quarters to avoid sexual promiscuity. "When I get nude in front of a gay guy, they get so hot that they can't control themselves." Russian President Boris Yeltsin has made another plea for economic aid. "Those stupid lazy bastard Russians," snaps Stern. "They're under communism so long they can't even produce anything." Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager charged with murder, has just appeared on a TV tabloid show. "I wanted her to take off her clothes," says Stern. Former Rifleman star Chuck Connors is dead...
...gradual intensification of mood. Instead of the sexually jaded 30-year-old character whose bitterness would seem plausible, Cohen comes off as a virginal 17-year-old who cannot hold her end of the powerful dialogue. She is unconvincing when delivering brutal lines like "You middle-class Black bastard. Forget your social-working mother for a few seconds and let's knock stomachs. Clay, you liver-lipped white...
...these movies accepted the recent verdict of Time that "...the 1980s [have] come into focus as a misguided era of borrowed luxury." All of these films self-righteously painted the conspicuous consumer of the 80s as a greedy, uncaring bastard. And all of them were boring, hokey pieces of crap that lost millions of dollars for their studios. (Except for Hook, which starred actors with big enough names to turn it into a financially successful, boring, hokey piece of crap...
...POINT HERE is that JFK, JFK notwithstanding, was not actually Gandhi with a Brahmin accent. Stone has failed to grasp that the causes of the Cold War, and of its bastard child the Vietnam war, were more deep-seated than a shadowy cabal skulking around the Pentagon. In fact, that lets us all off the hook. But America's involvement in Vietnam cannot be explained by a couple of bullets--even magic bullets...
...Hand me another BAR!" shouted Sands. "I swear I hit that yellow bastard...