Word: commentating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend's reply was a subtle comment on the degree to which American attitudes toward sex and the institution of marriage have changed. At one point in the not-too-distant past, sex was seen as an outcome of marriage and not as its precondition. For many, the traditional chronology has become inverted. I am not so naive as to think that pre-marital sex never existed before the advent of the "sexual revolution," but if we are to believe the statistics, the incidence of pre-marital relations in earlier times was at least the exception and not the general...
...plot, Interview With the Vampire and The Wings of the Dove spin strikingly similar stories. Sure, their twinship isn't biting anyone's neck just yet. Still, the similarities are telling and important, and all the more interesting for the fact that they are unlikely to receive much comment or notice...
This is not to say, however, that I hear the death-knell of liberal compassion or civilized political thought among the booms and bangs of Starship Troopers. In fact,Starship Troopers is sophisticated enough to recognize and comment on its own absurd, jingoistic hubris. We know this because director Paul Verhoeven punctuates his movie with the kinds of stentorian radio calls-to-arms familiar from World War II newsreels, and the same stylized "heroic" dialogue of '50s-era comic books and trading cards...
...unintended ones? A person is unlikely to remember the guy whose toes he crushed as he squeezed his way into lecture late, or the girl who groaned behind him in the lunch line as he carefully selected individual strands of spaghetti, or the student he interrupted to make a comment in class. Yet to each of those people, he has just defined himself as inconsiderate, selfish and irritating. And if he interrupts the same student again, or if the same person lands behind him twice during his little spaghetti ritual, then he is branded as obnoxious, rude and "annoying...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 declined to comment on the incident, in accordance with the administration policy's not to discuss individual disciplinary cases...