Word: foreplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with passion and fear. It is a stage on which winners, who are sometimes villains, and losers, who are sometimes heroes, are clearly defined at the climax. It creates a clash of strong figures engaged in a recreation as elemental as love or war, and with just as much foreplay, anxiety, strategy, abrasion and betrayal. In The Program, one of the few movies to offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other's mouths, and they define their love for the game as "goin' to war with...
...cliche contends that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...
Their indictment includes a list of sexist statements taken from the magazine. Some of Inside Edge, to be sure, is pretty atrocious. The article "How to Tell When a Woman Wants it Bad" advises men to treat the casual brush of an arm as a sure sign of foreplay: "An accident. Yeah, right. It's never an accident." Looks like sexism ... sounds like sexism. Yet the men behind Inside Edge vehemently insist that their magazine is not misogynistic. They say it's funny...
...Baird was motivated by resentment at her elitist arrogance. Baird's nomination failed because she represented a quality the voters had begun to detest in George Bush: a disconnection from the very real struggles of Americans who lack six- or seven-figure incomes. After a year of campaign foreplay with the "forgotten middle class," Clinton failed to deliver, leaving the middle class feeling frustrated and forgotten once more...
Moorhouse thus leaves the viewer with a rich fabric of emotional foreplay, woven together with the effective audio-visual devices and well-handled acting. One comes away with a sense of fascination and warmth. The poignant use of music and the implied sense of touch places the viewer inside the plot--watching the world, so to speak--through Martin's eyes. As for proof of the movie's worth, there is plenty...