Word: foolishnesses
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When will women take full responsibility, fifty-fifty with men, for initiating sexual contacts, thereby assuming the occasionally painful risks of rejection? That risk of rejection makes men, who usually must take the active part, not only look foolish many times, but also appear to be sexual harassers, when in fact they may be merely inept. A successful approach to a woman is called romance and courtship. An unsuccessful approach is called sexual harassment and may be a crime...
...then are informed for their trouble that they are not only unimportant in the scheme of things but also vicious and piggish, they may become sufficiently disillusioned to slam the door themselves -- pre- emptively. They are warned off. A man begins to think that marriage is a very foolish choice, an overrated idea...
Claire Bloom, a grand dame of theatre and the newest member of the A.R.T. company, fills the role of landowner Madame Ranevskaya ably, but is too restrained to convey the character's significance. Her Ranevskaya is flighty and foolish, and her translucent presence little justifies the excitement surrounding her return...
Yeltsin still represents as moderate a government as Russia is going to produce. But that highlights all the more clearly the limits of Russian moderation. It would be foolish, therefore, to continue a purely Russocentric policy that bets the house on the hope that with enough Western coaxing and acquiescence, Russia will turn into a Western democracy, a Cyrillic England. It is far more prudent for the West to demonstrate some firmness, to show we will respect Russia's national interests but not its imperial impulses...
...about a penis," said Lisa Kemler, one of Lorena's lawyers. "It was really about a life." In fact, two rather sad lives. Lorena is off to a Virginia mental hospital for a 45-day period of evaluation. She may soon partake of John's life of foolish fame -- book deals, movie offers and the like. At the verdict, his media adviser Paul Erickson said there would be no comment. "He's not into dancing on graves...