Word: callouses
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...plays Bernard Morin, a small-time businessman with upper-class aspirations. "In 1978, we were just trying to create these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches its callous characters on vacation where a minimalist plot is driven by their pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film...
...families' grief and rage are hardly surprising. But it is not callous to wonder why?besides simple compassion?this story, like cave-in and child-down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...
...celebrity. They are attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem in the midst of a thousand equally unignorable others. To give to Tibet and not Africa may seem callous. But to pick Richard Gere over Bono--that's just show...
...problem is that just as Japanese soldiers once dehumanized Chinese, Beijing's propaganda often paints Japanese as pure monsters. Grade school textbooks recount the callous brutality of Japanese soldiers in graphic detail, and credit the Communist Party with defeating Japan. (Another reason for Japan's surrender, it says, was the atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.) More moderate voices are silenced. A 2000 film by one of China's leading directors, Jiang Wen, remains banned because it depicted friendliness between a captured Japanese soldier and Chinese villagers. Although the film showed plenty of brutality, censors ruled that "Devils...
...inappropriate. The House’s decision to kill Romney’s death penalty bill was commendable but far from unexpected. Public opinion among commonwealth residents has turned increasingly against the death penalty in recent years, and nearly two-thirds of the representatives ended up voting against this callous practice. Two separate bills to reinstate the death penalty had already been rejected by the House in the past eight years—first in 1997, and then again in 2001. In short, the people’s will on the matter was abundantly clear, and there was no need...