Word: ruder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Facebook messaging is even less personal then e-mail but fast becoming a preferred means of communication for boys on campus. I find it presumptuous to assume I check my profile daily (which I do) and ruder still to think I’m going to respond to such an elementary avenue of expression (which I will). Clearly there’s a social facet of facebook.com that’s still taboo, an underlying tackiness that should discourage use of this site for a serious flirtation. But casual contacts are acceptable, and confirming friendship is a must. Unless...
...Ballad of Jack and Rose had shoulders, the viewer would be shaking them sternly. Of course it will all go wrong! Jack's social skills are so rusty they might give a visitor tetanus, and Rose couldn't have a ruder introduction to her own sexuality than from the complementarily weird sons. But getting scorpions to battle in a bottle is what drama does, and the movie carries an eerie fascination as it spins out the inevitable eruptions...
...those films Minghella proved himself a poet of blinding sunlight and murky impulses. Now, on the darker, ruder landscape of 19th century North Carolina (though much of Cold Mountain was shot in Romania), he tells a story of the severest passion--of a beautiful woman who learns strength, and a strong man who discovers beauty...
Family films. That genre usually means either animated features or something about a dog. So it was nice to find a film--heck, a franchise--with kids who admired their parents and uttered no curse ruder than "Oh, shiitake mushrooms...
...Weiss was ruder than rude to my wife," says Gest, post poking. "Forty people watched in horror. Who leaves their cell phone on? He looks at the message, doesn't turn it off. It rings again. He checks the message...