Word: greying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wood's life, though, as limned in Rudolph Grey's new biography, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (published by the aptly named Feral House), there is a lot of American tragedy. For Wood carried a triple burden: he was a transvestite, an alcoholic and a dreamer. As a Marine during World War II, he made beach landings wearing bra and panties under his uniform. Demobbed, he played a half man-half woman in a carnival before arriving in Hollywood to satisfy his twin obsessions: filmmaking and angora sweaters. The confessional Glen or Glenda...
...Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more melancholy irony to be found in Grey's interviews with the director's colleagues. Unlike most trashmeisters, Wood had radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa...
...front of the room, turning the crank on the cases The judge is clearly in charge, but if you squint it's hard to see any differences in status between the bailiffs, the clerks, the lawyers and the judge. All of them are of the system. confident in her grey-faced roles...
Council members left in a "grey area" those cases in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim." They dubbed this new category of sexual crime "sexual negligence"--those cases in which the alleged victim expressed neither consent nor lack of consent...
...quintessence of the council's new recommended definition lies in the definition of sexual negligence, or what The Crimson has termed "grey area." I believe this label to be a disservice not only to the UC, who see more importance in this than mere "grey area," but to the entire undergraduate community. The Crimson had a duty to inform the Harvard community properly of the significance and gravity of what has been termed "sexual negligence." This category opens up an entirely new outlook on the definition of rape...