Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line at Christie's today, I stared at the cover of some magazine where Sarah Michelle Gellar (the vampire-butt-kicker of Buffy fame) was posed, her head tilted down and body caving inward like some little girl who just had her lollipop taken away. Popular culture seems intent on muting and negating the power of any woman who dares to be even remotely large and aggressive--even if it's only...
...tried to think of the intent of the character Oyamaifat (I don't remember his exact name). I realized there was a lot of making-fun going on during the play about male/female issues, Latino machismo, etc. I tried to make excuses for having the Jewish character contrived as such, but I could not. They were making fun of an ethnicity, a race. It frankly surprises me that students at Harvard University, who are supposedly so "educated" and welcoming of diversity, are really so ignorant...
...impasto of alliterative adjectives got slathered onto public men. George Bernard Shaw was "mocking, mordant, misanthropic." General Erich von Ludendorff was "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." The intent was novelistic. As Luce explained it, "No idea exists outside a human skull--and no human skull exists without hair and a face and a voice--in fact the flesh and blood attributes of a human personality. TIME journalism began by being deeply interested in people, as individuals who were making history, or a small part of it, from week to week. We tried to make our readers see and hear and even smell...
Through the streets of Saigon, and in the dark approaches to dozens of towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, other Vietnamese made their furtive way, intent on celebrating only death--and on launching the Year of the Monkey on its malign way before it was many hours old. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out on the ground, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than...
...informant, from whom Harris and Leavitt would have bought the bacteria-neutralizing device, was a scam artist with two convictions for extortion. On Saturday the FBI said that the anthrax found was a nonlethal form used in animal vaccine. Possession of bacteria, even anthrax, is not illegal if criminal intent cannot be proved. Leavitt was released on Saturday...