Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drips with satire--but it's a satire that's not entirely Austen. Of course, the story itself mocks many of the mores of the society Austen depicts, and the movie, accordingly, is not without some excellent moments (Harold Pinter makes an excellent pre-Victorian patriarch, dropping proper ultimatums right and left). But the new Mansfield Park, Rozema-style, takes the satire to a new level, mocking an entire era and bringing to the surface its deficiencies and ridiculousness. The criticism of the Antiguan slave trade in particular, less prominent in the novel, is quite visually brought to life...
...would be easy for us to pass a term bill increase right here [in council]," Seton said last March. "I don't think that would be fair to the student body...
...When 2,700 people voted in last year's [presidential] election, they trusted me to make the right decision, and [the term bill increase] is the right thing to do," Seton says...
...Crimson writes an editorial saying the term bill is outrageous, and all the students hate it, and I go down in history as a usurper, I will still think it was the right thing to do," he says...
...Foster's got it right on this one--and I'm praying that Hopkins sees the light soon. I read the book this summer and giggled the whole way through. It's all one big bomb of a joke. See, Thomas Harris is a clever guy. He has no designs on being a literary superstar--a John Grisham, a Jackie Collins, a Stephen King--who churns out crap every year to please his publishers and loyal audience. Harris, for all we know, is sick to death of these characters that have pigeon-holed...