Word: offends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists only on shows determined not to offend anyone's sensibilities: American hippies...
...past, the club's discussion was centered around, 'Is this going to offend anyone? Is Dean [of Students Archie C.] Epps going to get mad?'" Anderson recalls. "That's a waste. You compromise all your positions and you're not taking stances...
...movie isn't handsome or measured or seamless -- the very notion of a well-made film would offend the director's antiaesthetic -- but once it gets revved up, Cry-Baby is keen fun from the onetime Belial of Baltimore. From now on, Hollywood, that's Mr. Waters...
...surpassing strangeness of Twin Peaks is not easy to pinpoint. Despite a few grisly touches, the show has little to offend in terms of sex or violence. Its distinctiveness is almost purely a matter of style. The pace is slow and hypnotic, the atmosphere suffused with creepy foreboding, the emotions eerily heightened. The news of Laura Palmer's murder inspires spasms of grief in everyone from the girl's mother to the crew-cut school principal, who bursts into tears after announcing her death over the p.a. system. In other hands, this might be melodramatic; in Lynch...
Savage's tirade unleashed a storm that sent Democratic leaders running -- or rather, tiptoeing -- for cover. By failing to condemn Savage quickly, they left themselves open to accusations that their party, anxious not to offend black voters, applies a double standard: denouncing bigotry when Republicans utter racially insensitive remarks and keeping mum when similar slurs are made by African Americans. Such accusations are all the more damning because Republicans, whose veiled appeals to anti-black prejudice have helped win five out of the last six presidential elections, only recently confronted a similar problem and appeared to deal with it firmly...