Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie is peppered with overt political correctness. Because the trio are presented as asexual, the word "gay" is shoehorned into their lines to appease those ticket-buying gays who might want the movie to be more "out." The homophobic cop is a racist, bumbling fool. The wife-beater is evil and even teams up with the cop. (Of course a man in a dress beating him up doesn't really empower the woman he beats, but whatever...
...This service is not a memorial service in the accepted meaning of that term, although we cannot help but reflect upon the two young lives lost to us and the sense of sadness, anger, evil and loss in which those deaths are caught up," Gomes said...
When it comes to women's rights, there is no single "evil empire" that can be isolated and embargoed. Thanks to religious conservatism and official indifference, misogyny is making a comeback everywhere. Which is why the Beijing conference deserves to be treated as something more significant than the latest spot of egg on China's face. "Women of the world--and men of goodwill," should be the message from Beijing, "unite to defend women's rights...
...this often untidy process of democracy where there is an explosion in media coverage and where politics has become a national spectator sport. The American people have been relieved of the burden of the cold war, where you kind of had to trust your government to keep the evil empire at bay and you wanted to cut your government a little slack. Attention is now turned inward. They are not entirely happy with what they see. Too often they see partisan bickering and fighting that goes beyond the reasonable levels of democratic discourse. Is there really that much difference between...
...more opera on this one show than in the rest of the year, five of the 50 promise a "classical vocal." Classical, perhaps; classic, perhaps not. To have a "talent" is not always to be talented. Then again, anticipating the mangling of a high C is one of the evil joys of pageant watching...