Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setback for the week. Despite the release last week of fresh reports chronicling persistent low unemployment and rising orders for factory goods, anxiety spread from the stock market to the "real" economy of jobs and paychecks. The market drop served as a reminder--one about as subtle as a poke in the eye--that in today's global economy, not even a healthy U.S. can quarantine its factories and offices and markets from the illnesses of countries halfway around the world. It vividly showed Americans how the turmoil in Asia and Latin America is slashing the profits of U.S. corporations...
...little dog which is killed and brought back to life in the same evening by the ever resourceful Healy. Even more un-funny elements of the film are the parts in which mentally retarded or disabled individuals are the targets of bad jokes. It is one thing to poke fun at Healy for his gigantic, hideously capped teeth, but it becomes extremely offensive to make fun of another man simply because he cannot walk without leg braces...
While it has recently become fashionable to occasionally poke fun at political correctness, particularly in the entertainment industry--take, for example, films like Bulworth and the highly rated television show "Politically Incorrect"--the undercurrent of homophobia and racism in Dog Days goes much too far. There seems to be some kind of degrading homosexual joke or insinuation in nearly every chapter, not to mention the constant marginalization of the Italians living in the North End. Perhaps Lyons fully intended to explore the pre-existing homoerotic relationship between Reilly and his roommate Even, a scenario that would have admittedly been more...
...Wachowski Brothers' Bound, is perhaps the last cultural realm where working as a plumber guarantees for an individual immediate and intense sexual gratification; this unfailing phenomenon is even more surprising when held against sitcom plumbers, who mostly appear as overweight white guys who score cheap laughs when their butts poke out from the waistlines of their jeans...
...bookshelves are crammed with curiously eclectic, historically minded tomes, including Women of Classical Mythology and The 32nd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1910-'11. But the big black Bosendorfer grand piano--whose propped-open top looks like a dinosaur's maw--dominates the room. You poke your head inside, your nose nearly pressing against the strings. She begins to play, hands cascading down the keys. Her playing is florid, feral--and then it's over. Your skull throbs with her music. Is this how it feels to be inside Tori's head...