Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This surrealistic feat, finally, is what the film comes to explore. Malkovich's is the performance of a brave oddball genius; he plays himself as an effete, monstrous perv, the perfect centerpiece for a film about the insanity of pretension. First-time director Spike Jonze, a longtime music video artiste, has filmed it with collaborator Lance Acord to underplay the fantastic elements of the storyline and accentuate the dirty realness of the images; the plot is deeply surreal, but the setting is today's world, crazy as it actually...
...happiness in the hands of others," he said, "especially the Red Sox." I was only eight years old and devastated by Boston's loss at the hands--or feet--of Bill Buckner. My dad, himself a diehard fan for now more than 50 years, was trying to put a brave face on things while also teaching me an important "life lesson...
...would seem most likely is for him to argue that, essentially, desperate disease requires a desperate cure. As the Unabomber manifesto put it, "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." In the Unabomber's mind, society was in desperate need of a brave and brazen savior who wouldn't let murder stand in his way. "Well, let me put it this way," Kaczynski says. "I don't know if violence is ever the best solution, but there are certain circumstances in which it may be the only solution...
...that, and surprised, and on the basis of this plain-spokenness, Ventura has leaped to national prominence, and deservedly so. He scorns the religious right and the war on drugs, which nobody else dares to do. He is hard as nails on the subject of campaign financing. He is brave in so many ways, and just when you want to admire him, he shows his great capacity for silliness, and there is nothing more fatal in politics. I'm sorry, but it simply is true. Voters don't elect people to goof around...
Still, more than most, Bezos is likely to adapt to this brave new bot world. He understands its fundamental creed. "The balance of power online fundamentally shifts from merchants to consumers," he says. Indeed, thanks to shopping bots, the party won't just be at his place anymore...