Word: hates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot that pierced the leg of Bahri Krasniqi, an 11-year-old ethnic Albanian who lives in the tiny village of Vojnik, may have been enough to set fire again to the depressingly familiar tinder of ethnic hate, violent temperament and political oppression...
...what kinds of educational titles do you have?" I asked the fellow behind the counter. He scratched his chin. "What about Rocky Hopper's Penguin Racing?" he asked, flipping the jewel box my way. "You press the buttons. The penguins waddle." Nah. My kids hate bird racing. What else you got? "Well, Boxer's Road is good," he said. "You manage a boxer hour by hour--his diet, his exercise regimen." How do you understand it? I asked, "Do you speak Japanese...
WASHINGTON: In the blue corner: the forces of human decency, led by President Clinton, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and a whole heap of bandwagon-jumping congressmen. In the red corner: the cloning scientist everyone loves to hate, Dr. Richard Seed. That was the battle of the Sunday talk shows, as Seed went on Fox News to pronounce himself a champion of infertile couples. "Dr. Seed will not do human cloning in this country," promised Shalala on CBS. And Clinton used his weekly radio address to urge Congress to rush through his anti?human cloning bill ? a popular little number...
...other movie, we would hate young Will Hunting. His perfection would be nothing short of irritating and boring. Yet Harvard golden boy Matt Damon sheds layer upon layer of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...
...remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...