Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mann shows us both the long-term effect of these forces upon the movies--the infamous Hays morality code, which constrained the movies to representing a rigidly defined value system whose iron grip did not begin to loosen until the 1960s and '70s--and the very personal impact upon the actors in Hollywood. The studios declared that being gay was no longer okay in Hollywood, thereby avoiding the harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious groups, and providing spin control on the gossip newspapers that were rapidly taking on an alarming independence. Actors who were rumored...
GERARD DEPARDIEU co-stars in The Man in the Iron Mask...
...Stantons, TIME has learned, are based on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Susan Stanton (Emma Thompson), with her iron irony and rigid self-confidence, is Jack's severest critic and staunchest defender. For all her feminist executive briskness, she is in love with Jack, or with what she can help him become. In a more sophisticated way than Jack does, she sells loyalty, cunning and, when cornered, sex appeal...
...Republican the same question and you're likely to get a clear, confident response about a belief in the need for smaller government and a return to "traditional values." This is not to imply that the Republican Party has an iron-clad, uniformly-supported ideology. It doesn't. Significant tensions do exist within the party--between deficit hawks and tax-cutters, libertarians and social moralizers, free traders and protectionists. But, despite these differences, Republicans at least seem to have a vision about the role and responsibility of government that they can unify around and use as a guide when governing...
Butler's impression probably came from another one of his books, Iron John, Bly said...