Word: characterize
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James isn't technically a member of the entitled class - the Brennans' family home is modest - but he acts that way. As he whines his way through the early minutes of the movie, it seems what he needs is a character-developing stint at the dump. Like Zach Braff's...
The message is a little mixed. Chores sound like character-building fun for men but like soul-deadening drudgery for women. Likewise, mothers are allowed to rhapsodize about their jobs, but hard-charging fathers who enjoy working round the clock are just selfish.
At our school and elsewhere, for instance, many still speak of the “red states” as if they were inhabited by spiders or other equally unpleasant creatures. Or, to take an example from the other side of the political spectrum, consider the strange mutation of the...
I'd like to have seen the faces of the movie-ratings board members as they sat through the scene in Brüno where, according to the movie-business website the Wrap, the lead character, a gay Austrian fashion guru, "appears to have anal sex with a man on...
Some high-end foreign boutiques like Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen, which opened in Moscow just a year ago, have also closed their doors. Italian jeans retailer Diesel recently shut all its shops in Russia. Still, if Russia's fashion industry has one thing to put its faith in, it...