Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cycle of revenge and counterrevenge should be broken, but not by the abject submission of Americans in an Iranian psychodrama. In the first place, American meekness invites contempt not only in Iran but elsewhere in the world. Without acting with the pathological ferocity of revenge, Americans might want to administer a little of what psychologists call negative the when the time is right, something like the message that a hot stove delivers to someone who tries to sit on it. Both sides should remember, if they can, the Persian prov erb: "Blood cannot be washed away with blood." Revenge...
Nobody used a subjective camera like Hitchcock, and no one could turn the camera back on us with so much contempt. Hitchcock was a moralist who said, "You like this, don't you?" The biggest joke in Hitchcock's films is that we're all guilty of something, call it "original sin"--we are at very least voyeurs. We all have a Bruno or Norman Bates in us and sooner or later someone's going to find out. Hitchcock's films were ridden with symbols--staircases, mothers, skinny blondes, birds, windows; it was a code that viewers happily followed from...
...prattles about his relationship to Hitler as Obersalzburg servant. It's quite dull. Even... yes, banal. "Why are you fidgeting in your seats?" he turns quickly and asks the audience, smiling. "Bored?" He continues, undaunted by the repressed jeers. Syberberg knows he's boring the masses and, with contempt, he continues. Adolph Hitler, he points out, did everything but bore the masses...
...around with Marxism. But clearly there are powers beyond those solely generated by human societies. I learned a lot of things in jail too." In 1971 Marshall spent two months in Terminal Island Prison in Los Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they put me on death row. Prison shook a lot of my preconceptions. I met some characters in prison who were just plain...
...organize a downtown Seattle demonstration to protest the verdicts of the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial. By December, after a monthlong trial in which he and six others (the eighth alleged plotter went underground) were unsuccessfully prosecuted for conspiracy to damage the Seattle Federal Building, he was in jail for contempt of court. All seven would have been freed had they not provoked the elderly judge with catcalls during the proceedings. At one point, two of them presented him with a Nazi flag...