Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie, Penguin and Catwoman make hilarious hate. Pfeiffer had cats crawling over her supine body and, in one scene, a live bird in her mouth. "Fortunately," she says, "I have a pretty big mouth." She also had a longtime crush on her character. "Catwoman was a childhood heroine of mine," she says. "She's good, bad, evil, dangerous, vulnerable and sexual. She is allowed to be all of those things, and we are still allowed to care about...
...arrestingly cruel and humorless, all chill and absolutely no charm. Not for him the leisurely glories of the play's language or the seductions of direct address and droll comedy to woo an audience. In a role that can epitomize the concept of the villain one loves to hate, McKellen avoids anything lovable or even approachable. This production, which has won raves from London to Cairo to Tokyo and which opened a 16-week, six-city U.S. tour last week, is an unrelenting portrait of the rise of a dictator, assailing equally the tyrant and the rapacious society that bred...
...Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate this book...
...language issue comes down to one of race. "A lot of terms we use on the street don't have the same connotation in white America. They shouldn't sweat us on what words we use with each other. I hate to say rap is a black thing, but sometimes...
WEBER: We are in a decaying spiral of public confidence. The public does not trust the institutions; they don't trust the political parties. It used to be, "I hate the Congress, but I love my Congressman." Now they've decided they hate their Congressman, too. Having fully discredited the parties and the institution, now we're discrediting the individuals. I'm not by nature a pessimist. I like to think that our system works and is going to right itself. But I see it decaying. I don't know what comes next after we have this tremendous cleaning...