Word: contemptable
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...crudeness of manner. Geidt lacks Mephistophelian finesse as both Mendoza and Satan, but is nicely balanced by Epstein who is superb as the stiffly and stuffily pompous Ramsden/Statue. And Rowe is highly diverting as the laconic chauffeur (H)enry Straker--Shaw's representative of the ideal working-class man, contempt for the bourgeois...
...life, the jilted who stalk and harass their former lovers are usually seen as forlorn creatures, objects of pity, if not downright contempt. In the movies (Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction), they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying, kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy...
Burton is threatening to call a contempt-of-Congress vote against White House counsel Ruff, who has refused to turn over some documents to Burton's committee. But the chairman has been forced to postpone full-scale hearings at least until the fall, and some sources say they may not get started until next year. The delay suits some Republicans, who fear that Burton's hearings will turn into a partisan circus. And it leaves the spotlight to Tennessee Republican Fred Thompson, a far more presentable prosecutor, who is likely to launch Senate hearings this summer...
MOVIES . . . ADDICTED TO LOVE: In life, jilted lovers who stalk and harass their former lovers are usually seen as forlorn creatures, objects of pity, if not downright contempt, writes TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel. In the movies (?Play Misty for Me,? ?Fatal Attraction?) they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this quite common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy. But that?s precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer...
...Union in 1845 and is a sovereign nation. It has its own courts, army and even license plates. On April 27, McLaren's followers took up arms (and a couple of hostages) in retaliation for the arrest of two members, one for weapons possession and the other on contempt charges. The hostages--neighbors who had quarreled with the litigious McLaren--were freed after Texas Rangers allowed a jailed "republican" to join the commandos, who then decamped to McLaren's "embassy." That exchangee, Robert Scheidt, apparently wilting under the pressure, chose to leave his compatriots and be rearrested on Friday...