Word: inhumane
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...doing so he still changed everything. It was he who opened the veins of the Bloody Century, an epoch that has seen mayhem on a scale unimagined for centuries before. "As a result of Hitler," argued Elie Wiesel in TIME last year, "man is defined by what makes him inhuman." And while the Reich lasted 12 years rather than 1,000, its spores still survive and multiply. "The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred, extreme nationalism, state-organized murder--is still alive, still causing millions of deaths," wrote U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke when he reluctantly nominated Hitler as the century...
...that's the source of so much confusion recently. To challenge for the top spot, Seles has to become a fitter, faster player to keep up with the speed and inhuman power of the Williamses. And she recognizes this...
...this alone--for this inhuman dimension--he was frequently reviled. He was not only too big, he was too everything, and so no one other than hometown fans ever wanted him to win. Winning for Goliath was simply not ordained, and when on occasion he did win (his two NBA championships), well, something had gone terribly wrong--a cosmic injustice. Never mind that men always want to be taller. This one overdid it and had to be punished...
...kind of a war situation, they're the first to get hurt. What the Serbs have forced them to see and feel is as inhuman as you can get," Pryor said...
Naturally, Eddie also gets agitated by the television, its sheer glut and ridiculous range of information from sitcoms to disasters to Ginsu knives. One shot isolates this inhuman condition of having a secondary reality at one's fingertips: Eddie's remote-control-enabled hand alone on the glowing background of the electronic hearth. How to distinguish anything in this white noise? Reduce everything to a series of zeroes and ones, of equivalences and otherwise? In perhaps the screens' best-ever depiction of date realism, Eddie pigheadedly refuses to allow the don't-mind answer of Darlene (Robin Wright Penn...