Word: confrontational
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South Africa must confront traumatic memories of apartheid to move towards healing, a former member of the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission argued yesterday at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
Which is apparently the last thing romance readers want to confront in their spare time. The rift between those who dote on and those who disdain romance novels really centers on the question of fantasy and its proper place in adult imagination. Here again sexism may play a part. Patriarchs have traditionally fretted about their womenfolk's being ruined by a book. Flaubert's Madame Bovary graphically portrayed the ruin that ensues when a young female's head is filled with romantic fancies. Can it really be good, modern critics wonder, for women to be whiling away so many hours...
Parents who suspect that their teens may be smoking should confront them immediately and directly. Assume that your child will deny smoking, but reiterate the rules of the house and the consequences if they're broken. Some parents try to bribe their kids to stay away from tobacco, but that doesn't work. Parents should never pay a kid not to do something he shouldn't be doing anyway...
...stand-ups turned TV stars, he's a limited actor. But the buff, brush-cut Titus has more to offer than affable my-wife-won't-have-sex-with-me jokes; his every sarcasm and tic betrays an intense, coiled anger. The pilot--in which he and his brother confront their father's possible suicide (Dad's been in his room four days without getting a beer)--is a brutal, hilarious and audacious set piece. (Which makes later episodes' juvenile sex-'n'-insult humor all the more regrettable.) Ken, played by a gruff but sympathetic Stacy Keach, proves more than...
...then there was little time left in Buchanan's appearance. When the event finally came to a close, those valiant soldiers of the Left who had unleashed their vitriol undoubtedly felt a deep sense of satisfaction. Not every day does a paladin have the opportunity to confront the Devil himself, and besides, it's always nice to vent...