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...movie’s strongest moment occurs when Murphy and Styron exact revenge upon Nick, a man Murphy claims previously raped her friend. Styron’s relatively friendless life in her quest to become CEO is a motif that has been used before, but is artfully drawn out in this movie. These two issues juxtaposed together provide influential insight into modern womanhood. However, this significance is muddled under lesbian innuendo that takes the viewer’s mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn...
...that note, I return to my terminal, friendless and now afraid of Philip who turns out to be Russian and has a red beard...
...party, inevitably, took note. It repeatedly refused to approve Falun Gong conventions, and a year ago, Li left China at the apparent urging of authorities. He was hardly friendless upon arrival in the U.S.: in 1996 Houston's mayor proclaimed a Li Hongzhi Day--and there are Falun Gong chapters in eight countries and 21 American states. Li's finances seem robust, although it's unclear how much control he has over his organization...
...uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...mainstream right is to avoid being tainted with the acts of a lunatic fringe, it must repudiate the ideological assumptions that motivated me as a young extremist and that animate the Israeli far right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust...