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...political and social structure of a society that used mathematics, charted the heavens, invented a calendar and constructed elaborate irrigation canals. The wall decorations and inscriptions indicate that the occupant was a member of a ruling family, probably an administrator. Among the artifacts was an unusual jar with a screw-top lid, possibly the earliest twist-open container discovered in the Western Hemisphere...
...sweet-and-sour sentimentality, could smile at the plight of Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic...
...attitude conducive to sexual harassment and rape, but the same has been about suggestive advertising. And why limit a campaign against violence to that committed against women? Studies have documented the link between violence on television and violent behavior; The A-Team encourages more violence than Hustler and Screw combined...
...that wasn't always the case Ancient Greek tragedy portrayed the definitive screw-up. There's no way you can argue that Oedipus, the father of screwing up if you're a Freudian, was responsible for what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff...
...moment, the tragedy is that Ed Markey missed a stellar chance to join the great American screw-up tradition (if he lost the senate race) or to agitate a glacially staid legislative body (if he won). Now that...