Word: comparisons
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Like journalists who pore over dirty magazines in order to debunk them, The People vs. Larry Flynt wants to have it both ways. A relevant point of comparison is with A Clockwork Orange, a far riskier and more complicated film that in arguing for the sanctity of free will dared to create a charismatic protagonist whose exercise of that free will was pointedly horrific. Larry Flynt has the nerve to argue for the sanctity of free speech but--for lack of a better word--censors its excesses. Fortunately, moviegoers who feel compelled to test their First Amendment absolutism need...
...most respected and stable organizations in baseball. First baseman Eric Karros, who recently signed a four-year, $20 million contract to stay Dodger Blue, said, "You talk to players who have been in Los Angeles and gone elsewhere, and they tell you there's no comparison in the way the organizations are run and the way they are treated." The Dodgers had just two managers from 1954 until 1996--Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda. Off the field, O'Malley treats his staff to ice cream at 2 p.m. on every day the club is in first place. The best ticket...
...knows the name of every single student in her 400 person lecture, and appears to be teaching a class entitled "My Personal Life 101." Rose is obviously a delicate flower indeed, witty and smart but resigned to the fact that she is just not that pretty, especially in comparison to her deliciously catty mother Hannah (Lauren Bacall) and sister Claire (Mimi Rogers). A cross between a hopeless romantic and a mental case, Rose cancels all her dates with the weirdos who pursue her, and instead lays around in pajamas eating cookies and watching baseball. Barbra has had a patent pending...
...recent games, the student crowd at Bright Hockey Center has been noticeably scarce, but it shines in comparison to the slim-to-none clan present last night in Achilles Rink...
...failed to highlight in your article on the '96 presidential election and accompanying statistics one important comparison and disturbing outcome. While you presented the popular vote as a percentage of the total, you did not do the same for the Electoral College. President Clinton captured 50% of the popular vote but a distorting 70% of the Electoral College vote. Each single popular vote Clinton received was worth 40% more in the Electoral College vote than those of his opponents. His victory was not an overwhelming mandate; almost half the voters did not support his re-election...