Word: disrespected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect, to put it sweetly, Russell balks at personal revelation. His own folks? "They're colorful," is as far as he will...
...trying to imply that a contest in which some brute is permitted to pound his opponent into submission by nearly any means at his disposal--a knee to the groin, a stomp on the nose--is, when all is said and done, slightly wimpish. I certainly mean no disrespect to those who participate in Ultimate Fighting and may list their hobbies as "beating smart alecks to a pulp...
...before he could take on the President he needed to dethrone the front runner. And so he began to drape the cobwebs on his rival. "I want to say this carefully," he said. "You won't hear me say one word of disrespect for Bob Dole. I don't feel that way and I won't say it. But a lot of people are wishing someone would go to Bob Dole and say, 'It's time to move...
YOUR COVER WITH ITS PHOTOMONTAGE of Senator Bob Dole's head on top of General Powell's uniformed body was the most tasteless thing I have ever seen. I was greatly offended by TIME's disrespect to two of the most significant men in this country today. DOROTHY GENTRY DeSoto, Texas Via E-mail...
...odds. Yet knowing that, many would also know that individual transformation has a power that cannot, should not, be denied. Dr. Darryl L. Fortson, a family practitioner from Gary, Indiana, looked over the crowd with admiration. "The task is unifying black men and atoning for the violence and the disrespect we have shown each other,'' he said. "And the disrespect we have shown our women. If we keep focused on that, then something very good and great will come of this...