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...asked me then, I would have blasted the entire process for being pretty cynical. Sure, the staffer will ask you where you are from, but the tte--tte is more of a formality that occurs because it would be too rude to only go around asking for business cards. So the whole networking part acts as a faade of interest and interaction, with dialogue that is cursory and forgettable...
...away." Poor normal Brad is greeted with the same scatological taunt every time his name is mentioned; poor virginal Janet is "Slut!" Brad cannot slap a desk, or Frank snap his surgical gloves, without the faithful's perfectly timed handclap. The portentous pauses in Rocky cry out for rude interpolations, so that the screen actors at times seem to be responding to directions from the audience. Before Frank can introduce his assistant Magenta, the crowd bleats, "What's your favorite color?" Before he mentions another character, Columbia, comes the question, "Where do you get your drugs?" When Frank asserts that...
After an unforgettable pasting from Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Democratic National Committee launched a survey called "Democrats Listening to America" to find out what the voters wanted. One answer came as a rude surprise. "Fairness," a favorite party theme in the 1982 and 1984 elections, was a turnoff to most of the 5,500 voters polled, 90% of whom identified themselves as middle class. "They see it as a code word meaning giveaway," said Frank O'Brien, a fund raiser for the D.N.C. "To them, fairness means not me but some other...
Needy girls who imagine that having a baby will fill the void in their lives are usually in for a rude shock. Hopes of escaping a dreary existence, of finding direction and purpose, generally sink in a sea of responsibility. With no one to watch the child, school becomes impossible, if not irrelevant. And despite the harsh lessons of experience, many remain careless or indifferent about birth control. About 15% of pregnant teens become pregnant again within one year; 30% do so within two years. "You ask, 'Why didn't you come in for the Pill?' and they...
Simon's Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the maid. Having gained the Whitemans' attention and the audience's complicity in his outrageousness, Jerry manages to teach everyone a lesson or two about living a little more freely and, maybe, happily...