Word: decentering
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...robs crooks who have robbed other people. Thinks he's smart; isn't. Has grousy temper; will break the finger of an unsuspecting airport Hare Krishna. Can compose haiku during his heists -- "Breaking, entering/ The dark and lonely places/ Finding a big gun" -- but can't choreograph a decent holdup. Junior is an engaging monster, a clown in his own horror show. As his nemesis, Miami detective Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), mutters, "I'd hate to meet Senior...
...Four years of Harvard is just enough time for Harvard to make decent people stress fiends and anal animals--even in such a way that they actually believe Harvard has made them good students. It's important to get out after four years with that shred of a chance to salvage your original personality and humanness...
...that a woman's right to choose is a right. Anti-abortionists argue that a baby's right-to-life is a right. But don't the citizens of Massachusetts have the right to live in the best conditions possible? The right to economic stability? The right to a decent education? The right to, adequate human services? The right to a clean environment? The right to be protected from crime...
...child, Conor (played by Brad West at age 12 and Arthur Wu at 16), survives and serves as the sole decent representative for the more barbaric sex. But his goodness seems to come from his mother and the influence of a chance meeting with the young Etain (Sian Heder), who is the namesake of Conor's mother. The extent to which the more developed Conor can be viewed positively is the extent to which he takes on more feminine characteristics...
Kemp's advocacy of private ownership of housing projects has won support from many urban residents, as well as the predictable criticism from their socalled liberal defenders, who, as Kemp says, "believe that people who live in public housing units are not capable of keeping a decent, safe home or even of caring for themselves...