Word: decentering
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...human sacrifice of Harvard men drawn into the universal folly of war. They thus erected what I continue to believe is the most elegant and moving of all of Harvard's memorials located on the north wall of the Church and written in Latin, thus providing a decent obscurity against the sensibilities of those who would be offended, a bronze plaque reads "Harvard University has not forgotten its sons who under opposite colors also gave up their lives for their country," and there are listed five soldiers of the Kaiser...
Like most soap operas, this one wins hot tears from its audience by imagining the worst things that could happen to decent people. It ties its women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like...
...Like most soap operas, the film version of Terry McMillan's best seller wins hot tears from its audience by imagining the worst things that could happen to decent people. Starring Angela Bassett and Whitney Houston, this is the familiar story of a quartet of young females looking for love and identity. Director Forest Whitaker ties his film's women to the railroad tracks of caprice and invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. But Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley...
...revolution he launched. More than half of all Americans disapprove of him, not least for actually doing what he said he would do if given the chance. Gingrich is suffering not only for what he has done, but also for how he did it. Without so much as a decent burial, he has killed the old order of American politics. No U.S. President, Democrat or Republican, is likely to propose spending more than the government earns, or expanding what it tries to do, for at least a generation...
...Civil War was not fought by angels and demons, but by men. I think it is no great stretch of the imagination or degradation of the soul to believe that most Confederates were decent and honorable, though mistaken, men whose deaths in combat for something they though right is deserving of our respect, though not our emulation...