Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forming a support group to help other out-of-touch hacks? Talk about the blind leading the blind! The growing legions of computer buffs and professionals are loaded with people who turn to an impersonal, unemotional computer to give them what they can neither give nor get from flesh-and-blood relationships. Are eyestrain, increased white-collar crime and broken marriages the improved world the computer has brought...
...fantasy from reality. One 35-year-old woman grew so addicted to CompuSex that her husband walked out, complaining that she was neglecting him for her machine. She then hooked up with a series of online lovers who were either disappointing or disappointed when she met them in the flesh. Now, complaining that her life is a mess, she is organizing a support group for women having similar difficulties...
...production staff of The Bounty took obvious pains at making sure that their movie would not merely be a remake of standard Mutiny on the Bounty fare. Using new historical sources for the true story behind the mutiny, the filmmakers tried to flesh out the relationship between Bligh and Christian and make it clear that their motivations and personalities are much more complex than the cardboard characters in the originals. The movie also focuses much more than the originals on the details of the Bounty's journey and stay in Tahiti. The cinematography spends an inordinate amount of time presenting...
...basic problem with Mike's Murder is its lack of focus. Although Winger gradually does garner the spotlight in a tension-filled scene towards the movie's climax, it is never entirely clear just who the protagonist of this film is. Moreover, it it's blood and flesh you're looking for in addition to tears. Mike's Murder is simply not the place to find it. Aside from several semi-suggestive scenes in which Winger lounges in a bubble bath (covered with bubbles, incidentally) and Mike fantasizes about making love to her over the phone, the film...
...butter stinketh!" was all it took for an undergraduate to be expelled from Harvard for insubordination in 1776. Although the food may have improved in the last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. Declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte reeketh..." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, and you may be tossed out of school. In the wake of the Weinberger protest the Faculty Council, Bok & Co, hope to enact a new gag rule and disciplinary code for political protestors...