Word: gamier
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Each year some 2,000 cetaceans are speared or bludgeoned to death in the waters near Taiji, accounting for nearly a tenth of the national haul. Some of the meat is consumed by humans. (No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Think gamier, chewier beef.) Some is used in pet food or animal feed. But much of it ends up frozen in the national whale-meat inventory, which contains thousands of tons of excess food...
...where adults could examine their passions to one where kids could get their thrills. Jaws, Star Warsand their countless progeny made the movie house a glorified baby sitter; and not just film sex but film romance came close to disappearing on the big screen. In mainstream movies, words got gamier, pictures more inhibited. A comedy called Meet the Fockerscould get a PG-13 rating (and clean up at the box office), but a comedy in which you would meet actual... fockers... was impossible to find...
...night after the out-of-competition Cannes screening, Shortbus threw itself a party on the Martinez Hotel beach. The press was told there would be performances. I can't imagine what we expected to find. A gamier version of Meet the Fokkers, I guess. But, no. various members of the cast convened for a concert. The vibe was like an American Idol audition on Avenue A. A little raunchy, but essentially convivial. As Mary C. noted, "It's a dorm party, not a porn party." It took place in a bandshell at the end of the pier that stretches into...
...year was 1967, the films Bonnie and Clyde (whose script was originally offered to Godard) and The Graduate (with its jazzy ransacking of the European film lexicon), and soon American directors had the auteur status that had been the exclusive province of foreigners. Then U.S. films got gamier, porno went legit, and the raincoat brigade didn't have to take its sex in Swedish...