Word: ickes
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...does. Actually, I have a bit of sympathy for the court on what to call gay relationships. I was never certain what to call my boyfriend of eight years - ick, ?boyfriend.? I?m 35, not 15. But ?partner? sounds clinical, ?lover? sounds too ?70s and ?longtime companion? sounds pathetic, evoking two old queens in cardigans watching Bette Davis movies...
...into thinking about where other characters stand on major issues. We'll never know, because mainstream superheroes cannot be invested with that level of political awareness. They always have a secret, over-riding agenda, spelled out in the earnings reports of their corporate masters: sell product. This is the "ick-factor" that makes some people roll their eyes when they hear about mainstream superheroes taking on meaningful subjects. A whiff of exploitation follows Spider-Man and his ilk wherever they go. Using him to comment on September 11, for example, would be as gross as using Snap, Crackle...
...find weird extravagance in an Asian film. The Directors' Fortnight presented Takashi Miike's latest outrage, Gozu, an entertaining yakuza saga that ends with the birth of a fully grown man from the womb of a woman in severe discomfort. (Sure, it's all special effects, but still?ick...
...Assaulted by such oddities, visitors to the Anthology auditorium will be alternating between exclamations of ?Wow!? and ?Ick.? Some of the movies feature deeds so repellent that the season?s curators feel it necessary to post a warning that this is gross-out stuff, suitable For Disturbed Men Only. Hence, a space will be set aside at Anthology as an ?Inappropriate Date Rescue Station for the comfort and enjoyment of our patrons. ... We have provided an oasis of civility in the lobby where the victims of bad dates can wait for their socially maladjusted partner to leave the theater...
Some of the criticism has gotten personal. On the Eliot list, Deon D. Falcon ’02 wrote that the speech’s content would be “fine,” but that Yasin was “a ick for intellectualizing and expounding upon the meaning of the word ‘jihad’...he is hitting too close to home too soon...