Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things to all people; such attempts inspire affection, but not admiration. The creators of Beyond the Limit have stumbled upon a still more devastating combination; theirs is a movie that isn't anything to anybody, and it's a film you can really love to hate...
...TALK BUT I HATE TO INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM. SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER...
...Gallagher couldn't resist taking a final pot shot at Harvard, quipping. "I hate to break the news to you, but you don't have the reputation for being a hearty-party school...
Only toward the novel's close are the layers of hate and obscenity stripped away--only when this is accomplished does Eddie begin talking with us. A stubborn, tenacious adolescent, he sees himself as a "man who has lost all but has not surrendered a fucking thing... And here, when we want, finally, to put our arms around him and hear more, he shrugs us off and retires behind a cloak of scorn, finishing. "Fuck you, cock sucking bastards! You can all go straight to hell!" But that's his problem...
...Chinese are still Mao's "struggle" people. They have "struggled" against the Japanese and hate them yet. They have "struggled" against Soviet ideas and repudiated them. They have "struggled" against the barbarities of their own government and leaders, and erased many. Today their struggle is against the realities of their own immense dimensions, the crushing limits of their backwardness. Yet some may find it easier to struggle against an outer enemy to restore national pride. And Americans must recognize that pride as they try to avoid the traps that pride may set. America and China are locked in a narrow...