Word: condemned
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...masculinity and virility as the ideal, the queen is often left without any courtiers—sometimes without any allies—in what can seem a lonely gay world. Walking into a room, I’m used to meeting the scornful eyes of other gay men who condemn me for perpetuating stereotypes. Last year, my gay best friend convinced me that I was always “acting,” that what little masculinity I had wasn’t enough. His honest appraisal painfully resonated with me because my flamboyance, I thought, did start with...
...1960s the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was hailed as "the conscience of the nation." Its systematic public exposure of segregation was crucial to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But today, petty political squabbles threaten to condemn the body to irrelevance...
...director of the original Rollerball, not a very good one. In comparison to the original, which was released in 1975 and starred James Caan (The Godfather ), this new version is far more violent and, as a result, far less meaningful. According to Jewison, the film is meant to condemn violence and the actions of the corporate world, yet the new Rollerball, as he says, “[embraces] the violence [that] I used in the original to comment on the activities of multinational corporations.” The previews of this new rendition make the violence the focus, using...
...subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions of control, domination and surveillance. This is clearly not the cinematic vision of somebody who supported the Nazi dream machine...
...subjected his actors and extras to intense conditions. This coupled with his thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions of control, domination and surveillance. This is clearly not the cinematic vision of somebody who supported the Nazi dream machine...