Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps it could be done by making it susceptible to a weak, rapidly mutating virus that didn't cause much trouble but ensured that the creature's immune system had to keep firing up every now and again to guard against nastier problems. The common cold is a strange disorder and has so far defeated all efforts to get rid of it. Could it be a form of protection devised by God or nature? And if the common cold is a defense mechanism, would it be wise to get rid of it? ROBERT W.K. GARDINER Kirbymoorside, England...
...Decade" were at their peak. The movie's pivotal sequence, a New Year's party celebrating the arrival of 1980, climaxes when one tortured porn groupie executes his wandering wife before blowing his brains out at the stroke of midnight. During the 1980s, selfish gratification takes on a colder, nastier edge, and the consequences finally came home to roost. Boogie Nights sends its characters into a spiral of degeneration. As each character faces the ramifications of their depraved life, the porn industry turns to kink and violence in order to keep up with the changing times. Dirk, drugged...
...teach an old soldier new tricks, but you may be able to rid him of his nastier habits. GENERAL HALFTRACK, who was doddering when Beetle Bailey first joined the Army in 1951 and must by now be a very old dog indeed, is being sent for sensitivity training. "The real-life sexual-harassment problems the Army was having kind of spilled over onto us," says Beetle creator Mort Walker, 73, who has faced the wrath of feminists in the past. "Some editors felt that although we weren't condoning it, we were on the edge." So, no more chasing MISS...
Fame is a fickle dame. Nick Matzorkis, who helped discover the bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult members and finagled that into a TV development deal with ABC, now has to cope with her nastier side. Matzorkis was jailed last week for an alleged probation violation for auto theft in Cleveland. Ohio authorities recognized him on TV. His publicist told the Los Angeles Times that the TV deal would not be affected...
...movie regrettably has several darker, nastier moments that cannot pass unmentioned. At one point two thugs try to kill an inconvenient tenant, a babushka-clad elderly woman, by pushing her down the stairs: we see her crash painfully down to the sound of goofy music. A few roaches rely upon annoying, boring ethnic stereotype voices; these are supposedly swept up in the broad strokes of roach world...