Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart is sent back after one such mission stained with red clay and cracked from the harsh sun. In Edmunds' voice of lament, he wishes he were green. He desires a different more alive form, to be "green rain on grass. "It may not be easy to being green, but it's better than being red in Edmunds's desert...
...editor of a newsletter for the Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs, was fired today for publishing articles that called for killing homeless, elderly and mentally ill Americans. Nikki Frey, the editor of "Lament," had maintained that she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive," but the local group's board didn't buy it. No wonder: The newsletter's November issue, publicized more widely in the Los Angeles Times this week, urged that "mentally defective" people be "humanely dispatched" and mourned that Adolf Hitler spoiled a good debate over...
...master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime was ruining public opinion regarding the concept of a master race, while a second says many of the homeless "should be humanely done away with, like abandoned kittens...
...know this sounds stupid, but it really is important. After all, before you can call an animal extinct you have to know what it looks like. The thing people most often lament and use as an indicator of the decline in school spirit is the falling attendance at football games. You know what? They're right, attendance has fallen--but that's about all that they're right about. In the '50s, school spirit probably could be measured by how many of the cigar-smoking, coat-and-tie wearing, all-male Harvard preppies went to football games...
...planning its direction. The film is almost destroyed by poor editing. Victor Frankenstein's comically bad dialogue with his monster and his fiancee is drawn out painfully. We can't bear to listen to gems like the monster's vow, "Frankenstein, I will have my revenge!" or Frankenstein's lament, "What have I done?" Yet the opening sequences, where his strange passion for dark science and his devotion to his family should be established, leave us with the dizzying sensation that we are watching yet another of the trailers for this eagerly anticipated film. Ten minutes into the movie...