Word: dicks
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...General Disagreement It's a pity that the american public was not privileged to hear the dissenting voices of professional soldiers such as Lieut. General Greg Newbold [April 17] before incompetent civilians like Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?and our own Tony Blair?committed the U.S. and its allies to a disastrous war. I wonder whether Bush & Co. ever go to the many war monuments just down the road from the White House and look at the memorials to a terrible waste of good men. David Landau Peacehaven, England...
...Russia has a choice to make ... None of us believes Russia is fated to become an enemy." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, in the Bush Administration's strongest public criticism yet of Vladimir Putin's Russia, rebuking the Kremlin for restricting citizens' rights and using oil resources as "tools of blackmail and intimidation...
...grip on society in recent years, cracked down on nongovernmental organizations and maneuvered to take control of natural resources and other industries it deems strategic. The Bush Administration, which has grown uneasy about Russian assertiveness beyond its borders, issued an unusually harsh indictment last week when Vice President Dick Cheney said Russia has "unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people" and warned Moscow against trying to meddle in the affairs of neighboring countries...
...deal? Languid displays of male and female genitals. As one of Smith?s avatars, John Waters, says: "Seeing a limp penis - in an arty way, in a way that was intellectual - was revolutionary. The police came because of it! Imagine, calling the cops because you saw a dick in a movie." The furor made Smith notorious but not famous. Within a few years of the Flaming Creatures fracas, new and more lurid displays of artistic obscenity were on display without police interruption. Smith kept at his mission for another quarter century, but audiences didn?t always come. Yet he soldiered...
...with Melville, who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach a generation before the French New Wave, which revered him, and took as his nom de cinema the name of the author of Moby Dick . It was intended as an homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony...