Word: horrid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...
...Last time I was here, it was a mess," said Sam L. Wolff '93 as he gazed around the new Coop. "Textbooks were missing, and the management was horrid. Anything would be better, and this seems a lot better...
...dual tragedy in Jackson Township, a New York City suburb of 36,000, cut to parents' worst fears about how much freedom they can really afford children to roam sidewalks or cyberspace. Community members and the local press were quick to ascribe larger blame for the horrid crime. Shouldn't the unregulated Internet be made accountable? Or the depressing lyrics of the rock songs Sam Manzie loved? Or the Christa McAuliffe Middle School for allowing students to solicit door to door...
...Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...
...beginning the weather was horrid, really cold and windy, but Justin took the lead from the beginning and strung out the field right away," said Tetreault. "It was a pretty ballsy move in that weather...