Word: resistance
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Still, many of us can't resist. "My fantasy is to pick on parents the same way their kids have picked on my daughter," says Dandi Daley Mackall of Cinnamon Lake, Ohio, whose daughter, 18, has been teased about her speech impairments. Mackall has called parents but found them defensive or in denial...
...irrelevant, a close friend doesn’t say ‘hi’ on the street, or you feel passed over in an extracurricular—and the self-esteem gremlin once again rears its ugly head. Except this time, it’s harder to resist the smug dismissals and mocking glares. And before you know it, you’ve subconsciously begun to believe the little bastard...
...henchman is a minor character in a fleeting scene in Some Like It Hot, but Billy Wilder couldn't resist giving him a line with a nifty reverse spin on it. That was Wilder all over. He gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices...
Martin’s obsession with words- with the precision of expression is fascinating. It hints at a compulsive need to order and to label that might help explain why he finds it so difficult to resist an attraction that defies any sort of conventional classification. When Martin’s son Billy (portrayed by an utterly sympathetic Jeffrey Carlson, who turns in a near-perfect performance, marred only by the hand gesture he apparently feels necessary to label his character as homosexual), transfers his feelings of rage and need towards his father into a sexual embrace, it begs disturbing...
...fact, looting and murder continue with both sides engaging in vengeful attacks. Nearly 300 people, mostly Muslims, have died since the first wave of violence, almost all in Gujarat. In some places, police allow rioters to continue un-molested. One special target of Hindu fury: those who resist the hate. Last week, a mob stripped and then beat a Hindu woman to death for protecting her Muslim friend; another mob fatally stabbed a Muslim man for having married a Hindu. "These people always take our women as one of their wives to beget Muslim children," says one activist...