Word: cruel
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...release of his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The following night he appeared on Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's Stage Show, flinging rock 'n roll into the faces of a slackjawed TV audience. In August he had the two-sided smash "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel." By November his first movie, Love Me Tender, was in the theaters. Five #1 singles, a debut album that went gold, and a movie, all in one annus mirabilis - no other entertainers had gone from nowhere to everywhere quite as fast as Elvis had, or with quite the force...
...demonstration is also sponsored by a couple of foreign groups, notably the League Against Cruel Sports from Britain and the Comite Anti Stierenvechten (CAS) which is based in the Netherlands and Belgium. But it follows Barcelona's groundbreaking move banning bullfights altogether in the city; 42 other cities and towns have declared their opposition to the sport. Spain's antitaurinos, as those opposed to bullfights are called, are gaining momentum, with scores of demonstrations and protests held across the country in places with a significant bullfighting tradition like Bilbao, Madrid and Seville. "In reality we are the real taurinos...
There were exceptions, like Jane Tennison, Helen Mirren's brilliant but self-destructive, even cruel detective in the British Prime Suspect series. But the more commercial inspiration for TV's new women may be Meredith Grey. Grey's Anatomy is far removed from the suburban dysfunction of Weeds or the deadly intrigues of Damages, but it demonstrated that there was a vast audience for a show about a fleshed-out heroine who sleeps with a married man, makes bad and selfish choices and can be downright unlikable...
...hour. I was virtually deaf for the next four days and relations with the neighbors were, for a few days, delicate. But the summer concert spirit of carefree irreverence and youthful dereliction survived. We successfully instilled in the children an appreciation for punk music and misbehaving, and from the cruel crush of core requirements, adulthood, and the appropriately fleshed-out tankini, I would happily continue to run and hide...
...Animal blood sport is barbaric and cruel, no matter how much "culture" it is wrapped in. No country that condones such a sport can be taken seriously in the global community. Deborah Cottrell, D.V.M., NEWBERRY, FLORIDA...