Word: demeans
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...dangerously stubborn-the English pride being narrow-nosed, the American blustery; but the effect is equally irritating to anyone who deals with them. The English are famous for not adjusting to foreign places, but Americans don't do this either. Both countries are inventive. The English like to demean American know-how, but they are just as dazzled by ingenuity. They simply have an older world to cherish along with the new; thus they make an elaborate point of doing so. Both countries are class-ridden, though the U.S. says that this accusation applies only to Britain. Both...
...QUESTION most people have about Bellucci's future is not what will he do with himself but when will tickets go on sale. "I don't know," he says. "I think you have to be suspicious about people who really want to be actors. I demean acting too much to be a really great actor. An actor has to love it so much, and I just can't affirm it. I wish I could do it--it would make life so much easier. But I don't know what I should do in life...
Jerry Falwell, who professes to be committed to U.S. pluralism, thinks the PAW crusade is mere partisanship. "Norman Lear sees a future threat to what he is doing, to the pornographic television he produces like Mary Hartman and Maude. He used Archie Bunker and Edith for years to demean women, got rich doing it, then gave a big donation to the women's movement. He's just playing games again, and using some liberal theologians for his own devices...
...exalting the set, I don't intend to demean the actors, for most of them are at least good enough, and several are outstanding. In the role of Melchior, James Bundy gives a thoughtful and convincing portrait of age-in-youth. Daphne de Marneffe is chillingly effective as Mrs. Bergmann, particularly on the video screen--then she is a ten-foot-tall female gargoyle, and it is clear that all hope for these children is lost. De Marneffe's triumph, though, comes later, when she plays the 14-year-old nymphet Ilse. Here she is as enormously seductive as only...
Wallace posits that what allowed Blacks to become slaves in American while others did not is sexism. "The only way to make us slaves (chattel slaves, not the indentured servants the first White slaves in America were) was to demean us sexually," she says. "The only way they could justify selling Blacks was to say we were sexually unfit...