Word: rottenness
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...tones of a fable, but the result is far from fabulous. There is something smug about North, and about the entire movie. All the substitute parents he interviews are as selfish as North's folks are, and the movie posits a mass movement in which other kids, all spoiled rotten, attempt to emulate North. At least the lost boys in the other movies have authentic problems and they don't suggest, as North does, that American loathsomeness has reached universal proportions...
...heard the story already, no doubt. Mufasa, a feared but well-liked ruler, his mate Sarabi and their son Simba live together in the seemingly harmonious land of Pride Rock. There's something rotten in the kingdom, though--Mufasa's brother Scar, the younger sibling simply green-eyed (literally) with jealousy of his brother's power...
...couple have a son, Tietou (played by three children in the 15-year course of the narrative), and all seems well. But shortly thereafter, the family begins its run of exemplary bad luck -- everything rotten that could happen to anyone in the plague years of Maoist China seems to happen to them...
...current rent control system is rotten to the core...
...surely Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis proved something about the rules of good and bad taste as they apply to that strange and sometimes rotten religion of the late 20th century -- celebrity. It is a religion that, as she knew as well as anyone, demands human sacrifice. Somehow, she managed to escape. And the escape was the most stylish and elegant part of her life...