Word: groin
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...society, his grim mockery of propriety. His works were bold, cynical, and for most of his audience, shocking--not unlike the more familiar work of film director Polanski. Perhaps it was their shared obsessions with the impervious force of Evil, the cruelty of the bourgoisie, and the sudden, unpredictable groin-kicks of Fate that initially attracted Polanski to Hardy. But, somewhere along the line, the director vaguely misconstrued the writer's art. For most of its three hours, Polanski seems to be adapting Emily Bronte, not Thomas Hardy...
...time to pray. I made a full confession before God, occasionally speaking in French and English to confuse the guards, cataloguing my good and bad deeds and begging him to have mercy on my soul. As they blindfolded me, painful bolts of fear ripped up my thighs into my groin. I had trouble controlling my legs, keeping my balance. "You bastards will burn in hell," I muttered...
...carefully selected sentences that, by explaining, defending, or indicting Humbert's obsession, make us ponder its meaning. On stage, nothing tempers the nakedness of the act; and when Albee's Lolita takes off her bathrobe to say, "Come and get it, Daddy," or buries her face in Humbert's groin, Richardson must literally draw a curtain over the scene--a comic gesture that only underscores Albee's inability to find how to stage Lolita without either ponderous moralizing or trivializing farce. As long as society remains uncomfortable with this subject while simultaneously exploiting it--and that, no doubt, will...
...latest incident occured October 29 when a woman was pushed against a wall by an unidentified male as she was returning to her dormitory at about 9:45 p.m. She escaped unharmed after kicking the man in the groin...
...first time, Restic will have a fully healthy backfield to control the ball. Senior Paul Connors, Harvard's second leading rusher last fall, will return to the backfield, though not in a starting role. Because of a pair of groin pulls, Connors didn't practice at all until this week, and Restic will start Paul Scheper again at halfback. "Paul (Connors) is not yet where he has to be," the coach said yesterday...