Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goldman's most virulent critics, the New Yorker's Pauline Kael, hates his scripts for evoking a "boys'-book, rites-of-manhood universe," replete with macho camaraderie and blue-eyed heroics. She's going to hate Adventures too: Goldman just as simplistically divides real-life moviedom into Heroes and Villains...
...crowd of unbelievers. Everyone has his or her own legend about "I remember when I was running and... "The ending is often violent, in which the runner is pelted with unwelcome objects by gangs of philistines. Often verbal slurs are shouted at the runner from moving vehicles. In extreme hate cases, the moving vehicles are used to intimidate the runner...
...always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down or apart. The object of passion is sighted and pursued. The mob rises to a peak of pure hate, does what it does, then slinks away, its energy spent. Perhaps every mob commits rape in a way. Anybody who has ever seen a mob in action senses its latent sexuality-the collective panting, the empty ecstasy. Even at the outskirts, the voyeur participates. Eventually he may run or protest...
Zeldin's loose sociological approach reveals itself in a strong chapter on class relations. Rather than particularize feelings along class lines, he concerns him-self with "how people perceive social relationships," reducing French society to three groups--those who like to lead others, those who hate or resent their boss, and those who opt out of the hierarchical system. The Duc de Brissac's "aristocratic" qualities are as easily found in M. Perrin, a worker in the Rossignol Ski Factory in Voiron, or in M. Cazeau, an engineer from Toulouse...
Love him or hate him, Iacocca is the epitome of American entrepreneurship...