Word: infliction
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...Dear seekers of light summer entertainment, you have gathered that Bergman's film is not Shrek 2 or Wedding Crashers. It's more like Shriek 42 or Marriage Crushers. To moviegoers raised in the Age of Facetiousness, a dead-serious story about the pain people maliciously or clumsily inflict on themselves and one another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh...
...kids. House Party combines covers of the familiar (Jamaica Farewell) and the obscure (the rollicking Tennessee Wig Walk) with crafty originals, like the R&B-inflected House Party Time. And the cast of surprise guests, such as Deborah Harry and Bob Weir, will give you an excuse to inflict Blondie and Grateful Dead albums on your children later...
...take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used the Japanese name to pitch his puzzle-generating program to the London Times. Sudoku has since been picked up by nearly 60 newspapers, including the New York Post and several others in the U.S., all willing to inflict sudoku elbow on new generations of fans...
...visit to the Soviet Union, I was asked by several political and scientific leaders to define nuclear parity. I replied that parity exists when each side is deterred from initiating a strategic strike by the recognition that such an attack would be followed by a retaliatory strike that would inflict unacceptable damage on the attacker. I went on to say: "I will surprise you by stating that I believe parity existed in October 1962, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. The U.S. then had approximately 5,000 strategic warheads, compared with the Soviets' 300. Despite an advantage...
...Well, forget it. The films were both busts. And, whatever the lofty intentions, they were exploitation films - I mean, they exploited an audience's lurid curiosity about the harm showbiz icons could inflict on themselves and others - and failed ones to boot...